Alleviate vs Abase - What's the difference?
alleviate | abase |
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
(archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.
(obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.
In transitive terms the difference between alleviate and abase
is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while abase is to lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.alleviate
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- Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
Synonyms
* address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, relieveabase
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(abas)- "Saying so, he abased his lance''." - ''
- "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased'' ." - ''Luke 14:11