transitive. To subdue (only Old English); to mitigate, assuage, relieve (pain, etc.).

transitive. To make light, or less heavy; to lighten, alleviate (a burden); to relieve (a person) of a burden. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To lessen (a burden, pain, hunger, etc.); to assuage, relieve, alleviate. Cf. allege, v.2 1.

transitive. To ease or abate the intensity or pain of (an injury, sore, etc.); to assuage (a person's sorrow); to comfort or soothe (a person who…

To soothe in grief or trouble; to relieve of mental distress; to console, solace. (The ordinary current sense.)

To cause to subside (the sea, a tempest, a cloud of dust, etc.); †to put a stop to (an annoyance) (obsolete); to allay (anxiety), appease (anger…

transitive. To lighten, alleviate, assuage.

transitive. To relieve, alleviate, mitigate (a burden, pain, etc.); to reduce, lessen.

To assuage, soothe, allay, or relieve. physical pain (obsolete) or mental suffering.

transitive. To lower in quality, quantity, or strength, relax; to thin (the blood); to shorten (life); to alleviate (pain). Obsolete.

To render less acute or painful; to abate, mitigate, or assuage. Now rare.

transitive. To relieve, alleviate, or remove (labour, pain, etc.). Obsolete.

To soothe, alleviate (pain, sorrow, etc.). archaic.

esp.: to bete one's bale (see bale, n.1 6); also to bete one of one's bale (cf. sense 2). Obsolete.

to cool a person's cares: to lessen or assuage a person's cares (cf. keel, v.1 2). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To relieve or dispel (pain, emotion, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. With of. To give (a person) relief from suffering. Cf. allege, v.2 2.

transitive. To alleviate or give relief from (an illness or symptom, pain, suffering, sorrow, etc.); to lessen the trouble caused by (an evil or…

transitive. To control or counteract with a particular treatment or remedy; to allay, relieve; to cure (a disease, etc.); to staunch (bleeding). Obs…

transitive. To make (pain, suffering, etc.) less severe; to relieve; to ease, reduce. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. = alleviate, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To relieve.

transitive. To relieve; = alleviate, v. 1.

With immaterial object: To assuage, mitigate, soften, soothe (pain, suffering, etc.). Also, to mitigate (a sentence). Now rare.

transitive. To make less burdensome, relieve. Also: to raise up, lift, elevate.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1b(b).)

To compose, clear up (care). Obsolete.

transitive. To allay, soothe.

To anoint or impregnate with balsam; to perfume; to heal, salve.

To allay, alleviate, assuage, soothe.

transitive. To make better; to improve; = ameliorate, v. 1. Also: to mitigate (suffering, ill feeling, etc.).