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alleviation 音标拼音: [əl,ivi'eʃən] n. 减轻,缓和,镇痛物 减轻,缓和,镇痛物 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" [synonym: {relief}, {alleviation}, {assuagement}] 2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain" [synonym: {easing}, {easement}, {alleviation}, {relief}] 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] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for "alleviation":
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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