alleviate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of alleviāre (“to lighten; to alleviate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈli.vi.eɪt/

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Verb

alleviate (third-person singular simple present alleviates, present participle alleviating, simple past and past participle alleviated)

1. (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.

Usage notes

Particularly used of pain or difficulty, with connotations of “lightening a load”.

Derived terms

• alleviated
• alleviatingly
• alleviation
• alleviative
• alleviator

 

Translations

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)

Italian

Verb

alleviate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of allevare
2. inflection of alleviare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative
3. feminine plural of alleviato

Anagrams

• alleatevi

Latin

Participle

alleviāte

1. vocative masculine singular of alleviātus