| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To relieve, ease, unburden, disburden or facilitate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To lighten. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To allay, assuage, soothe, defuse or appease. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To mitigate or palliate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To abate, diminish, reduce, lessen or decrease. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To shorten.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb alleviate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (alleviate) | 1. Provide physical relief, as from pain.[Wordnet]. 2. Make easier.[Wordnet]. 3. Make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge".[Wordnet]. 4. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.[Websters]. 5. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate.[Websters]. 6. To extenuate; to palliate.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: alleviating, alleviated, alleviates, alleviator, alleviators, alleviatingly and alleviatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being satisfying.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being deadening. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being diminishing, decreasing or dwindling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being soothing, palliative, anodyne, sedative or emollient. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being cool or calm. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being refreshing or ascending.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "ALLEVIATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1716. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ALLEVIATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making lighter, or more tolerable; extenuating.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of alleviate. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
