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alleviations

alleviations is the plural of alleviation.

Meaning of alleviation

Noun

alleviation (countable and uncountable, plural alleviations)

  1. The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
    • The only light is from a high barred window, and it is not so much light as an alleviation of the murk.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 660
  2. the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

Questions about alleviations

What is alleviations the plural of?
Alleviations is the plural of alleviation.

Words near alleviations in the dictionary

  1. alleviates
  2. alleviateth
  3. alleviating
  4. alleviatingly
  5. alleviation
  6. alleviations
  7. alleviative
  8. alleviatives
  9. alleviator
  10. alleviators
  11. alleviatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alleviations (page history and authors); alleviation (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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