Alleviate vs Recuperate - What's the difference?
alleviate | recuperate |
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
(sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
* 2002 , Roger Beebe, ?Denise Fulbrook, ?Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture
As verbs the difference between alleviate and recuperate
is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while recuperate is to recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.alleviate
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- Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.