Alleviate vs Remission - What's the difference?
alleviate | remission |
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
(legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
As a verb alleviate
is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.As a noun remission is
a lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.alleviate
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Verb
- Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
Synonyms
* address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, relieveremission
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Noun
(en noun)- Her cancer was in remission .