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Alleviate

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ameliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Amend 76% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Better 76% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Improve 76% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meliorate 76% connected

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 3

Comfort 76% connected

To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ease 76% connected

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Soothe 76% connected

To assent to as true.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Alleviation 74% connected

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alleviation 74% connected

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Facilitation 74% connected

The act of facilitating or making easy.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Facilitation 74% connected

The act of facilitating or making easy.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Assuage 92% connected

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Ease 92% connected

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Facilitate 92% connected

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Palliate 92% connected

Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Relieve 92% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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