Thesaurus of alleviate
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The following statistics are based on the British National Corpus, so they are representative for the British English.
Distribution of usage frequency for the most common synonyms of the verb alleviate:
Synonyms of the verb alleviate
The verb alleviate has more than one meaning. Please check the definition for more details about its synonyms.
Equivalent words for the verb alleviate, that have fewer characters:
- assuage (7 letter word for alleviate)
- inflections: assuaged, assuaging, assuages
- related terms: assuagable, assuager
- ease (4 letter word, the shortest synonym for alleviate)
- inflections: eased, easing, eases
- related terms: unease, uneasy, disease, diseasy, malease, misease, easy, easer
- palliate (8 letter word for alleviate)
- inflections: palliated, palliating, palliates
- related terms: palliator, palliation, palliative
- relieve (7 letter word for alleviate)
- inflections: relieved, relieving, relieves
- related terms: relievable, reliever
Equivalent words for the verb alleviate, that have more characters:
- facilitate (10 letter word, the longest synonym for alleviate)
- inflections: facilitated, facilitating, facilitates
- related terms: refacilitate, facility, facilitation, facilitative
Hypernyms of the verb alleviate
More generic words for the verb alleviate, that have fewer characters:
- advance (7 letter word)
- inflections: advanced, advancing, advances
- related terms: counteradvance, counteradvise, disadvance, disadvise, overadvance, preadvance, readvance, advancer, advancive
- aid (3 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for alleviate)
- inflections: aided, aiding, aids
- related terms: coaid, subaid, underaid, AIDEN, aidful, aidless, aidable, aidance, aider, aidant, aidman
- alter (5 letter word)
- inflections: altered, altering, alters
- related terms: Unalter, exalter, exaltee, exaltment, exaltate, exaltation, exaltative, misalter, prealter, prealteration, realter, realterable, realteration, alterable, alterate, alterer, alterant, alteration, alterity, alterman, alterative
- amend (5 letter word)
- inflections: amended, amending, amends
- related terms: unamend, unamendment, unamendable, reamend, reamendment, amendment, amendable, amender, Amendation
- assist (6 letter word)
- inflections: assisted, assisting, assists
- related terms: coassist, coassistance, coassistant, co-assist, reassist, reassistance, assistful, assistless, assistance, assister, assistor, assistant, assistive
- better (6 letter word)
- inflections: bettered, bettering, betters
- related terms: abetter, abettal, Abettee, abettor, outbetter, betterment, betterness, betterer, betterly
- boost (5 letter word)
- inflections: boosted, boosting, boosts
- related terms: upboost, booster
- cater (5 letter word)
- inflections: catered, catering, caters
- related terms: acater, acatery, catery, caterer
- change (6 letter word)
- inflections: changed, changing, changes
- related terms: unchange, exchange, exchangee, exchanger, transchange, transchanger, counterchange, interchange, interchanger, rechange, changable, changer
- correct (7 letter word)
- inflections: corrected, correcting, corrects
- related terms: uncorrect, uncorrectness, uncorrectable, uncorrectible, uncorrective, uncorrectly, incorrect, incorrectness, incorrection, incorrectly, miscorrect, miscorrection, overcorrect, overcorrection, precorrect, precorrectness, precorrection, precorrectly, recorrect, recorrection, undercorrect, correctify, correctness, correctable, correctible, correcter, corrector, correctant, correction, corrective, correctly
- exceed (6 letter word)
- inflections: exceeded, exceeding, exceeds
- related terms: exceedable, exceedance, exceeder
- exploit (7 letter word)
- inflections: exploited, exploiting, exploits
- related terms: overexploit, exploitage, exploitee, exploiture, exploitable, Exploitate, exploiter, exploitation, exploitive, exploitative
- forbear (7 letter word)
- inflections: forbore, forborne, forbearing, forbears
- related terms: forbearable, forbearance, forbearer, forbearant
- further (7 letter word)
- inflections: furthered, furthering, furthers
- related terms: furthersome, furtherance, furtherer, furtherly
- help (4 letter word)
- inflections: helped, helping, helps
- related terms: unhelp, unhelpful, unhelpable, overhelp, overhelpful, underhelp, helpful, helpless, helpsome, helpable, helply
- improve (7 letter word)
- inflections: improved, improving, improves
- related terms: disimprove, misimprove, preimprove, reimprove, improvable, improver, improvise, improvize, improvisation
- modify (6 letter word)
- inflections: modified, modifying, modifies
- related terms: Commodify, overmodify, Postmodify, premodify, Premodifier, remodify, Submodify, modifiable, modifier
- outdo (5 letter word)
- inflections: outdid, outdone, outdoing, outdoes
- related terms: outdoer, outdoor
- outgo (5 letter word)
- inflections: outgone, outwent, outgoing, outgoes
- related term: outgoer
- outmatch (8 letter word)
- inflections: outmatched, outmatching, outmatches
- outstrip (8 letter word)
- inflections: outstripped, outstripping, outstript, outstrips
- ply (3 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for alleviate)
- inflections: plied, plying, plies
- related terms: comply, compliment, compliable, compliance, complier, compliant, imply, implial, impliable, overply, reply, replial, Replisome, replier, repliant, underply, pliable, plier, pliant
- promote (7 letter word)
- inflections: promoted, promoting, promotes
- related terms: Copromote, Overpromote, prepromote, prepromotion, Repromote, Underpromote, Promotee, promotable, promoter, promotor, promotion, promotive
- provide (7 letter word)
- inflections: provided, providing, provides
- related terms: unprovide, unprovidable, unprovident, disprovide, misprovide, misprovidence, overprovide, overprovident, preprovide, reprovide, providable, providance, providence, provider, provident
- rectify (7 letter word)
- inflections: rectified, rectifying, rectifies
- related terms: correctify, re-rectify, rectifiable, rectifier
- refrain (7 letter word)
- inflections: refrained, refraining, refrains
- related terms: refrainment, refrainer
- revise (6 letter word)
- inflections: revised, revising, revises
- related terms: prerevise, re-revise, revisal, revisee, revisable, revisible, reviser, revisor
- right (5 letter word)
- inflections: righted, righting, rights
- related terms: aright, arightly, unright, unrightful, unrightable, unrighteous, unrightly, unrightwise, E-Right, foreright, interright, outright, outrightness, outrightly, overright, overrighteous, upright, uprightish, uprightness, uprighteous, uprightman, uprightly, Rightard, righten, rightful, rightish, rightism, rightist, rightless, rightness, rightship, righty, rightable, righter, righteous, rightly, rightward
- serve (5 letter word)
- inflections: served, serving, serves
- related terms: deserve, deserver, conserve, conservable, conservate, conserver, conservant, conservation, conservative, inserve, disserve, misserve, outserve, outservant, Overserve, preserve, preserval, preservable, preserver, preservation, preservative, reserve, reserval, reservee, reservery, reservist, reservable, Reservance, reserver, reservor, reservation, reservative, re-serve, subserve, subserviate, underserve, underservant, servage, serval, servery, servette, servian, servist, servite, Servlet, servable, server, servant, servation
- supply (6 letter word)
- inflections: supplied, supplying, supplies
- related terms: unsupply, unsuppliable, unsuppliant, oversupply, presupply, resupply, undersupply, supplial, suppliable, suppliance, supplier, suppliant
- support (7 letter word)
- inflections: supported, supporting, supports
- related terms: presupport, resupport, undersupport, supportful, supportless, supportable, supportance, supporter, supportation, supportive
- surmount (8 letter word)
- inflections: surmounted, surmounting, surmounts
- related terms: surmountal, surmountable, surmounter
- surpass (7 letter word)
- inflections: surpassed, surpassing, surpasses
- related terms: surpassable, surpasser
- turn (4 letter word)
- inflections: turned, turning, turns
- related terms: deturn, unturn, unturnable, inturn, counterturn, counter-turn, disturn, foreturn, misturn, outturn, overturn, overturnable, overturner, return, returnee, returnless, returnable, returner, re-turn, underturn, upturn, withturn, turnery, turnable, turner, turnor
- work (4 letter word)
- inflections: wrought, worked, working, works
- related terms: awork, unwork, unworkable, unworker, inwork, a-work, co-work, co-worker, counterwork, counterworker, interwork, outwork, outworker, overwork, Postwork, Prework, rework, Telework, underwork, underworker, underworkman, upwork, workaholic, workful, workless, Worklike, workship, worksome, worky, workable, worker, workman, workmanship, workwoman, Workly, workwise
More generic words for the verb alleviate, that have the same number of characters:
- encourage (9 letter word)
- inflections: encouraged, encouraging, encourages
- related terms: disencourage, misencourage, preencourage, pre-encourage, reencourage, re-encourage, encourager
- meliorate (9 letter word)
- inflections: meliorated, meliorating, meliorates
- related terms: ameliorate, ameliorable, ameliorant, amelioration, ameliorative, meliorism, meliorist, meliorable, meliorant, melioration, meliority, meliorative
More generic words for the verb alleviate, that have more characters:
- ameliorate (10 letter word, one of the longest hypernyms for alleviate)
- inflections: ameliorated, ameliorating, ameliorates
- related terms: ameliorable, ameliorant, amelioration, ameliorative
- outperform (10 letter word, one of the longest hypernyms for alleviate)
- inflections: outperformed, outperforming, outperforms
- related terms: Outperformance, Outperformer
More generic phrase for the verb alleviate, that has fewer characters:
- back up (7 characters phrase, the shortest phrasal hypernym for alleviate)
More generic phrase for the verb alleviate, that has more characters:
- change state (12 characters phrase, the longest phrasal hypernym for alleviate)
Hyponyms of the verb alleviate
More specific words for the verb alleviate, that have fewer characters:
- abreact (7 letter word)
- inflections: abreacted, abreacting, abreacts
- related term: abreaction
- allay (5 letter word)
- inflections: allayed, allaying, allays
- related term: allayment
- calm (4 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for alleviate)
- inflections: calmed, calming, calms
- related terms: uncalm, uncalmness, uncalmative, uncalmly, intercalm, calmness, calmy, calmer, calmant, calmative, calmly
- comfort (7 letter word)
- inflections: comforted, comforting, comforts
- related terms: uncomfort, uncomfortable, discomfort, discomfortable, discomforter, miscomfort, recomfort, comfortful, comfortless, comfortable, comforter, comfortation, comfortative
- lull (4 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for alleviate)
- inflections: lulled, lulling, lulls
- related terms: lully, Lullable, luller
- quiet (5 letter word)
- inflections: quieted, quieting, quiets
- related terms: unquiet, unquietness, unquietable, unquieter, unquietous, unquietly, inquiet, inquietness, inquietation, inquietly, disquiet, disquieten, disquietness, disquieter, disquietly, overquiet, overquietness, overquietly, quietage, quieten, Quietish, quietism, quietist, quietlike, quietness, quietsome, quietable, quieter, quietive, quietly
- quieten (7 letter word)
- inflections: quietened, quietening, quietens
- related terms: disquieten, quietener
- soothe (6 letter word)
- inflections: soothed, soothing, soothes
- related terms: resoothe, soothful, soothless, soother, soothly
- still (5 letter word)
- inflections: stilled, stilling, stills
- related terms: unstill, instill, instilling, instilment, exstill, stillage, stillery, stillish, stillness, stilly, stiller, stillman
More specific words for the verb alleviate, that have more characters:
- tranquilize (11 letter word)
- inflections: tranquilized, tranquilizing, tranquilizes
- related terms: untranquilize, untranquilness, untranquilly, retranquilize, tranquilness, tranquiler, tranquilization, tranquility, tranquilly
- tranquillise (12 letter word, one of the longest hyponyms for alleviate)
- inflections: tranquillised, tranquillising, tranquillises
- related terms: untranquillise, untranquilness, untranquilize, untranquilly, tranquilness, tranquiler, tranquilize, tranquilization, tranquility, tranquilly
- tranquillize (12 letter word, one of the longest hyponyms for alleviate)
- inflections: tranquillized, tranquillizing, tranquillizes
- related terms: untranquillize, untranquilness, untranquilize, untranquilly, tranquilness, tranquiler, tranquilize, tranquilization, tranquility, tranquilly
More specific phrase for the verb alleviate:
- calm down (9 character phrase)
Related terms of alleviate
Related words for the term alleviate, that have fewer characters:
- abate (5 letter word)
- inflections: abated, abating, abates
- related terms: abatage, Abatee, abatic, abature, abatable, abater, abator
- appease (7 letter word)
- inflections: appeased, appeasing, appeases
- related terms: reappease, appeasable, appeaser, appeasive
- attemper (8 letter word)
- inflections: attempered, attempering, attempers
- related term: attemptive
- bate (4 letter word)
- inflections: bated, bating, bates
- related terms: abate, abatage, Abatee, abatic, abature, abatable, abater, abator, debate, debatable, debater, Debation, rebate, rebatable, rebater, surbate, surbater, bateful, batement, batoid, bater, bateman
- benumb (6 letter word)
- inflections: benumbed, benumbing, benumbs
- related terms: unbenumb, benumbment
- blunt (5 letter word)
- inflections: blunted, blunting, blunts
- related terms: bluntish, bluntness, blunter, bluntly
- chasten (7 letter word)
- inflections: chastened, chastening, chastens
- related terms: rechasten, chasteness, chastenment, chastener
- control (7 letter word)
- inflections: controlled, controlling, controls
- related terms: decontrol, decontrolling, uncontrol, uncontrolling, overcontrol, overcontrolling, Photocontrol, precontrol, precontrolling, recontrol, recontrolling, subcontrol, subcontrolling, Controlee, controlless, controlling, controlment
- cure (4 letter word)
- inflections: cured, curing, cures
- related terms: discure, discuren, discursion, Miscure, outcure, precure, recure, recursion, curette, curial, cureless, curer, curious
- cushion (7 letter word)
- inflections: cushioned, cushioning, cushions
- related terms: recushion, upcushion, cushionless, cushionlike, cushiony
- damp (4 letter word)
- inflections: damped, damping, damps
- related terms: Overdamp, dampen, dampish, dampness, dampy, damply
- dampen (6 letter word)
- inflections: dampened, dampening, dampens
- related term: dampener
- deaden (6 letter word)
- inflections: deadened, deadening, deadens
- related term: deadener
- dilute (6 letter word)
- inflections: diluted, diluting, dilutes
- related terms: undilute, undilution, overdilute, overdilution, dilutee, Dilutable, diluter, dilutor, dilutant, dilutent, dilution, dilutive
- diminish (8 letter word)
- inflections: diminished, diminishing, diminishes
- related terms: prediminish, prediminishment, rediminish, diminishment, diminishable, diminisher
- downplay (8 letter word)
- inflections: downplayed, downplaying, downplays
- dull (4 letter word)
- inflections: dulled, dulling, dulls
- related terms: undull, unduloid, unduly, undulate, undulance, undulous, undulant, undulation, undulative, dullard, dullery, dullify, dullish, dullness, dullsome, dully, duller, dullity
- foment (6 letter word)
- inflections: fomented, fomenting, foments
- related terms: refoment, fomenter, fomentation
- lay (3 letter word)
- inflections: laid, laying, lays
- related terms: alay, delay, delayage, unlay, inlay, translay, forelay, interlay, Interlayment, mislay, outlay, overlay, relay, relayman, re-lay, underlay, underlayment, uplay, layery, laetic, layette, laic, layship, layman, laymanship, laywoman
- lenify (6 letter word)
- inflections: lenified, lenifying, lenifies
- lessen (6 letter word)
- inflections: lessened, lessening, lessens
- related term: lessener
- lighten (7 letter word)
- inflections: lightened, lightening, lightens
- related terms: alighten, illighten, inlighten, outlighten, relighten, relightener, lightener
- mitigate (8 letter word)
- inflections: mitigated, mitigating, mitigates
- related terms: overmitigate, mitigable, mitigant, mitigation, mitigative
- moderate (8 letter word)
- inflections: moderated, moderating, moderates
- related terms: unmoderate, commoderate, immoderate, immoderation, Retromoderate, Moderance, moderant, moderation
- modulate (8 letter word)
- inflections: modulated, modulating, modulates
- related terms: demodulate, demodulation, Overmodulate, remodulate, Upmodulate, modulize, modulant, modulation, modulative
- mollify (7 letter word)
- inflections: mollified, mollifying, mollifies
- related terms: remollify, mollifiable, mollifier
- numb (4 letter word)
- inflections: numbed, numbing, numbs
- related terms: numbness, number, numbly
- obtund (6 letter word)
- inflections: obtunded, obtunding, obtunds
- related terms: obtunder, obtundent, Obtundation, obtundity
- pad (3 letter word)
- inflections: padded, padding, pads
- related terms: forepad, repad, Padless, padlike
- poultice (8 letter word)
- inflections: poulticed, poulticing, poultices
- reduce (6 letter word)
- inflections: reduced, reducing, reduces
- related terms: overreduce, overreduction, re-reduce, re-reduction, reducible, reducer, Reducant, reducent, reduction, reductive
- remedy (6 letter word)
- inflections: remedied, remedying, remedies
- related terms: remedial, remediless, remediable, remediate, remediation
- remit (5 letter word)
- inflections: remitted, remitting, remits
- related terms: preremit, re-remit, remital, remitment
- restrain (8 letter word)
- inflections: restrained, restraining, restrains
- related terms: overrestrain, prerestrain, re-restrain, restrainable, restrainer
- salve (5 letter word)
- inflections: salved, salving, salves
- related terms: salvage, salvy, salvable, salver, salvor, salvation, Salvative
- slacken (7 letter word)
- inflections: slackened, slackening, slackens
- related term: slackener
- slake (5 letter word)
- inflections: slaked, slaking, slakes
- related terms: aslake, slakeless, slakeable, slaker
- smother (7 letter word)
- inflections: smothered, smothering, smothers
- related terms: smothery, smotherable, smotherer, smotheration
- sober (5 letter word)
- inflections: sobered, sobering, sobers
- related terms: unsober, Insober, soberlike, soberness, soberer, soberize, soberly, soberwise
- soften (6 letter word)
- inflections: softened, softening, softens
- related terms: oversoften, resoften, softener
- stifle (6 letter word)
- inflections: stifled, stifling, stifles
- related terms: overstifle, restifle, stifler
- stupe (5 letter word)
- inflections: stuped, stuping, stupes
- related term: stupor
- subdue (6 letter word)
- inflections: subdued, subduing, subdues
- related terms: presubdue, subdual, subduable, subduer
- suppress (8 letter word)
- inflections: suppressed, suppressing, suppresses
- related terms: presuppress, resuppress, suppressal, suppressen, suppressible, suppresser, suppressor, suppressant, suppressive
- tame (4 letter word)
- inflections: tamed, taming, tames
- related terms: atame, untame, untamable, overtame, retame, tamal, tameless, tameness, tamure, tameable, tamer, tamely
- temper (6 letter word)
- inflections: tempered, tempering, tempers
- related terms: untemper, contemper, distemper, mistemper, retemper, uptemper, temperish, temperless, tempersome, tempery, temperable, temperate, temperance, temperer, temperative
- unburden (8 letter word)
- inflections: unburdened, unburdening, unburdens
- related terms: unburdenment, unburdensome
- unlade (6 letter word)
- inflections: unladed, unladen, unlading, unlades
- related term: unladen
- unload (6 letter word)
- inflections: unloaded, unloading, unloads
- related terms: unloaden, Unloadable, unloader
- weaken (6 letter word)
- inflections: weakened, weakening, weakens
- related terms: unweaken, reweaken, weakener
Related words for the term alleviate, that have the same number of characters:
- attenuate (9 letter word)
- inflections: attenuated, attenuating, attenuates
- related terms: overattenuate, subattenuate, subattenuation, attenuable, Attenuance, attenuant, attenuation, attenuative
- constrain (9 letter word)
- inflections: constrained, constraining, constrains
- related terms: Unconstrain, Overconstrain, constrainment, constrainable, constrainer
- disburden (9 letter word)
- inflections: disburdened, disburdening, disburdens
- related term: disburdenment
- extenuate (9 letter word)
- inflections: extenuated, extenuating, extenuates
- related terms: extenuation, extenuative
- unballast (9 letter word)
- underplay (9 letter word)
- inflections: underplayed, underplaying, underplays
Related words for the term alleviate, that have more characters:
- anesthetize (11 letter word)
- inflections: anesthetized, anesthetizing, anesthetizes
- related terms: Overanesthetize, anesthetic, anesthetics, anesthetist, anesthetise, anesthetization
- disencumber (11 letter word)
- inflections: disencumbered, disencumbering, disencumbers
- alleviant (9 letter word)
- related terms: alleviate, alleviation, alleviative
- alleviation (11 letter word)
- related terms: unalleviation, unalleviative, alleviate, alleviant, alleviative
- alleviative (11 letter word)
- related terms: unalleviative, unalleviation, alleviate, alleviant, alleviation
Related phrase for the term alleviate, that has fewer characters:
- be light (8 character phrase)
Related phrases for the term alleviate, that have the same number of characters:
- play down (9 character phrase)
- slow down (9 character phrase)
- tone down (9 character phrase)
- tune down (9 character phrase)
Related phrases for the term alleviate, that have more characters:
- bank the fire (13 character phrase)
- deaden the pain (15 character phrase)
- ease matters (12 character phrase)
- give relief (11 character phrase)
- have little weight (18 character phrase)
- keep within bounds (18 character phrase)
- kick the beam (13 character phrase)
- make light (10 character phrase)
- related term: make lighter
- make lighter (12 character phrase)
- pour balm into (14 character phrase)
- pour oil on (11 character phrase)
- reduce the temperature (22 character phrase)
- reduce weight (13 character phrase)
- sober down (10 character phrase)
- water down (10 character phrase)
- weigh lightly (13 character phrase)
Other related term for the term alleviate, that has fewer characters:
- off-load (8 character term)
Other related term for the term alleviate, that has more characters:
- de-emphasize (12 character term)
- related term: de-emphasise
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