alleviate
Make more bearable
Alleviate means to make something bad less severe without eliminating it entirely.
You alleviate pain, suffering, poverty, or symptoms—reducing their intensity rather than curing their cause: The medication helped alleviate her headaches.
The word implies partial relief, not complete resolution.
Lack of strain
- sootheGently ease discomfort
- assuageRelieve or calm
- palliateReduce severity, not cause
- allayDiminish or relieve
comfort · salve · remedy · balm · respite · reprieve · succor · release
Make less severe
- lessenReduce in degree
- reduceMake smaller in degree
- diminishTo make smaller
- decreaseBecome or make smaller
lighten · ease · lower · minimize · moderate · temper · abate · curtail
Gently ease discomfort
tranquilize · mollify · placate · appease · still · quell · lull · gentle
Make less severe
- healRestore to wellness
- mendRestore after damage
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
- cureTreatment that heals
treat · restore · recover · repair · rehabilitate · convalesce · recuperate · regenerate
ease
Lack of strain
allay · comfort · salve · remedy · balm · respite · reprieve · succor · release · lift
mitigate
Make less severe
decrease · lighten · ease · lower · minimize · moderate · temper · abate · curtail · relax
soothe
Gently ease discomfort
settle · tranquilize · mollify · placate · appease · still · quell · lull · gentle · defuse
ameliorate
Make less severe
cure · treat · restore · recover · repair · rehabilitate · convalesce · recuperate · regenerate · therapeutic
- calmingcalm, calm down, soothe, relax, pacify
- lightenbrighten, bleach, fade, whiten, illuminate
- softensoften, dampen, mute, muffle, tone down
- recoveryrecovery, sobriety, rehab, recover, recovery room
- Reduceshrink, diminish, decrease, lessen, reduce
- unloading cargooffloading, emptying, unpacking, unpack, discharge
- poverty alleviationReducing extreme economic need
alleviation, alleviating, alleviated, alleviates, alleviators, alleviations, alleviative, unalleviated