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v. To make (pain, for example) more bearable: a drug that alleviates cold symptoms. See Synonyms at relieve.

v. To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.

v. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

v. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; ; -- opposed to aggravate.

v. To extenuate; to palliate.

To make light, in a figurative sense; remove in part; lessen, mitigate, or make easier to be endured: as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, punishment, burdens, etc.: opposed to aggravate.

To represent as less; lessen the magnitude or heinousness of; extenuate: applied to moral conduct: as, to alleviate an offense.

Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay, diminish, soften, abate, qualify, reduce. See allay. Where these words are applied to pain, etc., alleviate is to lighten somewhat, and especially in a soothing way; relieve and allay go further than alleviate, removing in large measure or altogether. Mitigate is to make mild, less severe; perhaps it stands midway between alleviate and relieve. Assuage is to calm down, and that idea underlies all its uses; allay conveys similarly the idea of putting to rest.

v. provide physical relief, as from pain

v. make easier

"Recently, I read a a media release that noted some state lawmakers have considered seeking government support in a last ditch effort to save local media outlets, yet some only see government intervention as posing a conflict of interest to free press and democracy, although in the short-term alleviate some of the financial strainnewspapers are facing."

alleviated    alleviates    alleviating   

help    assist    aid   

soften    relieve    mitigate    diminish    abate   

abbreviate    deviate