Alleviate and Help

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Alleviate verb - To make more bearable or less severe.

Usage example: a car pool alleviates some of the stress of driving the kids to and from school every day

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Help is a synonym for alleviate in health topic. In some cases you can use "Help" instead a verb "Alleviate", when it comes to topics like reduce.

Nearby Words: alleviation, alleviating

Help verb - To make more bearable or less severe.

Usage example: the new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit

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Alleviate is a synonym for help in improve topic. You can use "Alleviate" instead a verb "Help", if it concerns topics such as health, relieve.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

The only known cure for a Pungeon Master is punicillin (though Punadol may help to alleviate the induced headaches).

Source: Pungeon Master
That people in Japan sometimes use "katana" as a generic term for "sword", regardless of type, does not help to alleviate the confusion.

Source: Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana
It did help to alleviate the "Dragonlance syndrome" where the hero party seems to be walking through an RPG world where nothing happens if they are not directly involved.

Source: Trapped by Mountain Lions

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