Alleviate vs Liberate - What's the difference?
alleviate | liberate |
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.
(euphemistic) To steal or abscond with (something).
In lang=en terms the difference between alleviate and liberate
is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while liberate is to free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.As verbs the difference between alleviate and liberate
is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while liberate is to free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.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, relieveliberate
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Verb
(liberat)- to liberate a slave or prisoner
- to liberate the mind from prejudice
- to liberate gases
- The neighbor's garden gnome is so ugly, I'm tempted to liberate it for them.
