alleviate
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Alleviate poverty, make schooling and a paying job worthwhile?
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022
"Reach out to people. Alleviate people by giving them love. You can't reach out physically but you can reach out mentally and in the most humane way possible," he added.
From Fox News • Apr. 4, 2020
In 2002, in what remains to this day the most illustrative case on the issue — Californians Helping to Alleviate Medical Problems, 128 T.C.
From Forbes • Jan. 24, 2015
Alleviate, Relieve These words differ chiefly in degree.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks
Alleviate is thus less than relieve; relieve, ordinarily, less than remove.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
Vocabulary lists containing alleviate
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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Grade 9, List 2
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