alleviating
Making pain lighter
Alleviating is making something bad less severe or more bearable.
Pain, suffering, poverty, and boredom can all be alleviated—reduced but not necessarily eliminated: The medication helped in alleviating her symptoms.
The word implies partial relief rather than complete cure or solution.
Reducing strain or difficulty
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- relievingReducing discomfort or strain
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
- mitigatingReducing harm or severity
assuaging · palliating · ameliorating · abating · quelling · allaying · diminishing · lightening
Relieving oneself of weight
- lighteningMaking lighter in weight/shade
- liftingRaising something heavy
- removingTaking something out
- freeingReleasing from confinement
releasing · loosening · unloading · offloading · relieving · sparing · exempting · excusing
Giving solace to another
- reassuringRestoring calm or confidence
- comfortingGiving emotional ease
- solacingAlleviating grief or distress
- supportingBearing or sustaining
nurturing · calming · quieting · settling · pacifying · placating · mollifying · gentling
Dealing with medically
- healingRestoration of health
- remedyingCorrecting a fault
- curingRestoring health or preserving
- medicatingAdministering therapeutic substances
dosing · prescribing · administering · therapeutic · palliative · analgesic · sedating · anesthetizing
easing
Reducing strain or difficulty
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- relievingReducing discomfort or strain
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
mitigating · assuaging · palliating · ameliorating · abating · quelling · allaying · diminishing · lightening · reducing
unburdening
Relieving oneself of weight
- lighteningMaking lighter in weight/shade
- liftingRaising something heavy
- removingTaking something out
freeing · releasing · loosening · unloading · offloading · relieving · sparing · exempting · excusing · delivering
consoling
Giving solace to another
- reassuringRestoring calm or confidence
- comfortingGiving emotional ease
- solacingAlleviating grief or distress
supporting · nurturing · calming · quieting · settling · pacifying · placating · mollifying · gentling · steadying
treating
Dealing with medically
medicating · dosing · prescribing · administering · therapeutic · palliative · analgesic · sedating · anesthetizing · numbing
- fixing problemsfixing, repairing, mending, patching, restoring
- pharmacologypharmacology, drugs, pharmacokinetics, dose, drug
alleviatingexacerbating
Making something worse
aggravating · worsening · intensifying · heightening · amplifying
alleviatingaggravating
Causing irritation or worsening
exacerbating · burdening · oppressing · afflicting · tormenting
- poverty alleviationReducing extreme economic need