Alleviate vs Abbreviate - What's the difference?
alleviate | abbreviate |
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
(obsolete) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
* (rfdate) :
(obsolete) To speak or write in a brief manner.
To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
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(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
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In lang=en terms the difference between alleviate and abbreviate
is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while abbreviate is to reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form .As verbs the difference between alleviate and abbreviate
is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while abbreviate is (obsolete|transitive) to shorten by omitting parts or details .As an adjective abbreviate is
(obsolete) abbreviated; abridged; shortened .As a noun abbreviate is
(obsolete) an abridgment .alleviate
English
Verb
- Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
Synonyms
* address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, relieveabbreviate
English
Etymology 1
* Either' from (etyl) abbreviaten, from (etyl) . * See abridge.Verb
(abbreviat)- It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
