Meaning of ALLEVIATION
| Pronunciation: | | u`leevee'eyshun
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- [n] the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
- [n] the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
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| | Synonyms: | | assuagement, easement, easing, relief, relief |
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| | See Also: | | comfort, decrease, detente, diminution, liberalisation, liberalization, palliation, reduction, relaxation, spasmolysis, step-down | |
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| | Definition: | | \Al*le`vi*a"tion\, n. [LL. alleviatio.]
1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or
severity; mitigation; relief.
2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
I have not wanted such alleviations of life as
friendship could supply. --Johnson.
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| | Related Terms: | | abatement, abridgment, allayment, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, calming, contraction, dampening, damping, deadening, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, sagging, salving, scaling down, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, weakening |
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