noun
definition
The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
definition
The act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement
Examples of alleviation in a Sentence
They include the alleviation of social hardship, reduction in access to the main methods of suicide, and specific measures for high-risk groups.
If given after meals larger doses are required for temporary alleviation by neutralizing the food acids.
The uncertainty analysis is continued at a scale more recognizable to civil engineers by examining decision-making in relation to flood alleviation.
Here aid policies aimed at poverty alleviation could be an obvious answer.
Quel surprise, there was no marked reduction in pain alleviation to the group exposed to lemon.
The majority of people had no problems with surface water or storm drainage, flood alleviation seems to have lessened the previous problems.
Mental health professionals look more toward the psychological impact of the worry as opposed to the physical symptoms, although alleviation of the worry and anxiety oftentimes makes the physical symptoms lessen or diminish completely.
The treatment and management of Tourette syndrome varies from patient to patient and should focus on the alleviation of the symptoms that are most bothersome to the individual or that cause the most interference with daily functioning.
For many of the peroxisomal disorders, there is no standard course of treatment, with supportive treatment strategies focusing on alleviation of complications and symptoms.
He was famous not only for his interest in schemes for the alleviation of poverty in Moscow, but also as the founder of new churches and monasteries.
Savings and shares raising the program income is advocated within both the financial sustainability paradigm and poverty alleviation paradigms.
Stress appears to increase the frequency and severity of tics, while concentration on another part of the body that is not involved in a tic can result in the temporary alleviation of symptoms.
The Prussian headquarters, however, spent the 12th and 13th in idle discussion, whilst the troop commanders exerted themselves to obtain some alleviation for the suffering of their starving men.
These reforms resulted in a temporary increase of prosperity, or at any rate an alleviation of the previous misery of the peasants.
Some alleviation was indeed obtained by the apportionment of contributions amongst the districts 'liable, leaving to the community to decide as it thought best between its members.