Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which alleviates, lightens, or mitigates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, alleviates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That who or which
alleviates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun remedy that alleviates pain without curing
- noun a therapist who makes suffering more endurable
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Examples
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Pfizer originally made it as a chest pain alleviator.
Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010
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Not only is it a science fiction author's ultimate idea repository and writer's-block alleviator, but the folks at DARPA obviously have a sense of humor about their overtly Matrix-like, world-dominating aspirations.
Brave New World Order: A Googlement Above, Around, and Ahead of the People 2009
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Not only is it a science fiction author's ultimate idea repository and writer's-block alleviator, but the folks at DARPA obviously have a sense of humor about their overtly Matrix-like, world-dominating aspirations.
Randall Amster: A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People 2009
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Some of us are just struggling to get by and occasionally reach for a certain illegal natural organic glaucoma alleviator to simply relax or blur the edges of our non-luxury, horizontally mobile existences.
Warren Holstein: Operation Buzzkill: Random Drug Testing for the Unemployed 2009
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But the striking thing about the charismatic leader is the extent to which his followers regard him as a healer of wounds, an alleviator of pain.
Barack Obama, Shaman 2008
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Dr. Ford also recommends during the invasion or period of chills external friction of mustard or of fresh red pepper either in tincture or in powder, a good alleviator always procurable; and the internal use of pepper-tea, to bring on the stages of reaction and resolution.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I can safely recommend the Cluthe Truss as the only safe alleviator of the terrible sufferings of those unfortunate sufferers from rupture.
Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute
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No, no, not even the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that great alleviator of all the sorrows of the heart, is allowed an entrance there.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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Salutations to thee that art of the grace of those deities who are worshipped in sacrifices, to thee that art the Atharvans, to thee that art the alleviator of all kinds of disease and pain, to thee that art the dispeller of every sorrow.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Months passed before the captain's equanimity became restored; but time, the alleviator of sorrow and best soother of a turbulent spirit, brought a favourable change.
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