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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alleviating, alleviative, alleviator, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsam, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, brilliantine, calmant, calmative, cathartic, chrism, cleansing, cold cream, collyrium, cream, cushion, deadening, demulcent, dolorifuge, dulling, easing, embrocation, emollient, extenuating, extenuatory, eye-lotion, eyewash, face cream, hand lotion, inunction, inunctum, lanolin, limitative, limiting, lotion, lubricant, lubricating, lubricational, lubricative, mitigating, mitigative, mitigator, mitigatory, moderator, modificatory, modifying, modulator, modulatory, mollifier, nard, numbing, ointment, pacificator, pacifier, pain-killing, palliative, peacemaker, pomade, pomatum, purgative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, relieving, remedial, restraining hand, restricting, restrictive, salve, sedative, shock absorber, softening, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, spikenard, stabilizer, subduing, temperer, tranquilizer, unction, unguent, unguentum, wiser head
Dictionary Results for lenitive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lenitive
    adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
           [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive,
           mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]
    n 1: remedy that eases pain and discomfort

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lenitive \Len"i*tive\ (-t[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. l['e]nitif. See
   Lenient.]
   Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or
   acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lenitive \Len"i*tive\, n. [Cf. F. l['e]nitif.]
   1. (Med.)
      (a) A medicine or application that has the quality of
          easing pain or protecting from the action of
          irritants.
      (b) A mild purgative; a laxative.
          [1913 Webster]

   2. That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay
      passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.
      [1913 Webster]

            There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils,
            which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her
            hands, and fell asleep.               --Sterne.
      [1913 Webster]

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