alleviative

Example Sentences

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It is as tender a tribute to the alleviative power of friendship as I can imagine.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2017

The duty-free importation af considerable quantities of frozen meat constitutes an alleviative measure for the consumers.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few days before the end, an alleviative operation was performed.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I have been bronchitic and asthmatic for twenty years, and have never known an alleviative so immediately efficacious as 'Anisette.'"

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Also they had been promised a solution of the noise mystery and was not that in itself sufficient alleviative?

From Jane Allen, Junior by Bancroft, Edith