Usually means: Reduce the severity of something.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word alleviate:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. alleviate: Merriam-Webster
  2. alleviate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alleviate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alleviate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alleviate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alleviate, alleviate: Wordnik
  7. alleviate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alleviate: Wiktionary
  9. alleviate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alleviate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alleviate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alleviate: Dictionary.com
  13. alleviate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alleviate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Alleviate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alleviate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alleviate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alleviate: Rhymezone
  19. alleviate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alleviate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alleviate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. alleviate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. alleviate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. alleviate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. alleviate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. alleviate: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alleviate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alleviate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. alleviate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Alleviate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alleviate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

(Note: See alleviated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

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