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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

alleviation
    n 1: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed
         or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded
         with relief" [syn: relief, alleviation, assuagement]
    2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or
       annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant
       pain" [syn: easing, easement, alleviation, relief]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Alleviation \Al*le`vi*a"tion\, n. [LL. alleviatio.]
   1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or
      severity; mitigation; relief.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
      [1913 Webster]

            I have not wanted such alleviations of life as
            friendship could supply.              --Johnson.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Alleviation:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abatement, abridgment, allayment, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, calming, contraction, dampening, damping, deadening, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, sagging, salving, scaling down, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, weakening

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