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Borrowed from Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of alleviāre (“to lighten; to alleviate”).
alleviate (third-person singular simple present alleviates, present participle alleviating, simple past and past participle alleviated)
- (transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
- Synonyms: address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, quell, relieve
- Antonym: aggravate
- alleviate his pain
Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
Particularly used of pain or difficulty, with connotations of “lightening a load”.
make less severe
- Arabic: خَفَّفَ (ḵaffafa), لَطَّفَ (laṭṭafa), سَكَّنَ (sakkana)
- Armenian: մեղմել (hy) (meġmel), մեղմացնել (hy) (meġmacʻnel)
- Azerbaijani: yüngülləşdirmək (az), asanlaşdırmaq
- Belarusian: змякча́ць impf (zmjakčácʹ)
- Bengali: উপশম (bn) (upośom)
- Bulgarian: облекча́вам (bg) impf (oblekčávam), смекча́вам (bg) impf (smekčávam)
- Catalan: mitigar (ca), pal·liar (ca)
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 減輕 / 减轻 (zh) (jiǎnqīng), 緩和 / 缓和 (zh) (huǎnhé) (as in 减轻痛苦 (jiǎnqīng tòngkǔ, “to alleviate suffering”).)
- Danish: lindre (of pain), mildne (of pain), hjælpe på (of pain), lette (da) (make easier), dulme (of pain), tage brodden af (of pain)
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: milderen (nl), temperen (nl), verlichten (nl), verzachten (nl)
- Esperanto: mildigi, moderigi
- Estonian: kergendama, leevendama
- Faroese: lætta, linna
- Finnish: helpottaa (fi), lievittää (fi)
- French: adoucir (fr), calmer (fr), soulager (fr)
- Galician: aliviar
- Georgian: შემსუბუქება (šemsubukeba)
- German: mildern (de), lindern (de), abschwächen (de)
- Greek: ανακουφίζω (el) (anakoufízo), καταπραΰνω (el) (katapraÿ́no)
- Hebrew: להקל
- Hungarian: enyhít (hu), csillapít (hu)
- Icelandic: létta
- Khmer: កាត់បន្ថយ (kat bɑntʰɑɑy), សម្រាល (km) (sɑmraal)
- Latin: lēniō
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: lindre
- Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak)
- Polish: łagodzić (pl)
- Portuguese: aliviar (pt)
- Romanian: ușura (ro), alina (ro), calma (ro)
- Russian: облегча́ть (ru) impf (oblexčátʹ), смягча́ть (ru) impf (smjaxčátʹ), уменьша́ть (ru) impf (umenʹšátʹ), снима́ть (ru) impf (snimátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: aotromaich
- Slovene: ublažiti, omiliti, olajšati
- Spanish: aliviar (es), mitigar (es), paliar (es), aleviar (es)
- Swedish: lindra (sv), mildra (sv), avhjälpa (sv)
- Turkish: azaltmak (tr), dindirmek (tr), hafifletmek (tr) (law)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: אױפֿמונטערן (oyfmuntern), לינדערן (lindern), פֿאַרלײַכֿטערן (farlaykhtern), פֿאַרגרינגערן (fargringern), מילדערן (mildern)
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alleviate
- second-person plural present subjunctive of allevare
- inflection of alleviare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural of alleviato
alleviāte
- vocative masculine singular of alleviātus
