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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 an alleviator of human sorrow, an exhauster of oppressive cares.

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John

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

I can safely recommend the Cluthe Truss as the only safe alleviator of the terrible sufferings of those unfortunate sufferers from rupture.

From Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured by Cluthe Rupture Institute