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alleviate

Syllables: al·le·vi·ate/əˈli.vi.eɪt/

alleviate verb: to reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

Verb

alleviate (third-person singular simple present alleviates, present participle alleviating, simple past and past participle alleviated)

  1. (transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
    • alleviate his pain
    • Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
  2. (transitive) (finance) to pay down partially.
    • There are different ways to alleviate your financial debt.

alleviate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

alleviate in Hindi

उपशमन करना

alleviate in Tamil

குறை, தணி, மட்டுப் படுத்து, மட்டுப்படுத்து, நிவர்த்தி செய், எளிதாக்கு

alleviate in Urdu

کم کرنا, گھٹانا, کمی کرنا, آرام, تَخفیف, تکلیف میں کَمی

alleviate in Bengali

make less severe
উপশম upośom
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alleviate in Malayalam
ലഘുവാക്കുക, സഹ്യമാക്കുക, രോഗശാന്തിവരുത്തുക, കുറയ്ക്കുക
alleviate in Kannada
ಇಳಿಸು, ಹಿಂಗಿಸು, ತಗ್ಗಿಸು, ಕಡಿಮೆಮಾಡು
alleviate in Gujarati
ઉતારવું utārvũ
alleviate in Arabic
خَفَّفَ ḵaffafa, لَطَّفَ laṭṭafa, سَكَّنَ sakkana
alleviate in Thai
บรรเทา ban-tao, เปลื้อง bplʉ̂ʉang, ปลดเปลื้อง

Examples of alleviate in a sentence

  • The woman wore special orthopedic shoes to try and alleviate her hammer toe.
  • Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.
  • My alleviated sorrow no longer crushes me.

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Synonyms of alleviate

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of alleviate

Forms of alleviate

third-person singular presentalleviates
present participlealleviating
past participlealleviated
pastalleviated

Past tense of alleviate: alleviated

Origin of alleviate

Borrowed from Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of alleviāre (“to lighten; to alleviate”). By surface analysis, al- + Latin lev- + -i- + -ate.

Words formed from alleviate

Questions about alleviate

What does alleviate mean?
Alleviate means to reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
What is alleviate in Hindi?
Alleviate in Hindi is उपशमन करना. See Alleviate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is alleviate?
Alleviate is a verb.
How do you pronounce alleviate?
Alleviate is pronounced /əˈli.vi.eɪt/.
What is the past tense of alleviate?
The past tense of alleviate is alleviated.

Words near alleviate in the dictionary

  1. Allevas
  2. allevation
  3. alleviable
  4. alleviant
  5. alleviants
  6. alleviate
  7. alleviated
  8. alleviates
  9. alleviateth
  10. alleviating
  11. alleviatingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alleviate (page history and authors); alleviate (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); alleviate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alleviate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alleviate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alleviate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉતારવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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