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, al-lēv′i-āt, v.t. to make light: to mitigate.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Alleviate, relieve.—To alleviate pain is "to lighten" it; to relieve it is to go further, and "to remove it in a large measure or altogether."
From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray
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