alleviate (v.)

to reduce pain or problems

Examples

• Medicine alleviated the pain.

Key rules

• Alleviate means make pain or problems less severe
• Alleviate symptoms, alleviate poverty
• Alleviation is the noun

Common mistakes

• Medicine alleviated of the pain → Medicine alleviated the pain
• The aid alleviates to the problem → The aid alleviates the problem

Use cases

• Discussing medicine
• Describing relief programmes
• Writing policy papers