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alleviator

[uh-lee-vee-ey-ter] / əˈli viˌeɪ tər /


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Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, added: "The reality is that a teacher these days is a counsellor, a social worker, a poverty alleviator and a guardian of respectful values."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Most of the air-quality improvement came overnight into Friday, with rain acting as a final alleviator.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

It is to be used as a great alleviator of human suffering in lowering and regulating the temperature of hospitals in hot weather, and in surgical operations as a substitute for an�sthetics and cauterising agents.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

Good humor is a great alleviator of bodily privation.

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore

All that is bestowed upon me of that kindest alleviator of human miseries comes dashed with a double portion of contempt.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles