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Definition of the day : « alleviating »
- verb relieve; lessen
- My life will be devoted to alleviating the sorrows of the poor and wretched.
- Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
- She searched for some alleviating suggestion, some happier hope; none came.
- Extract from : « Moods » by Louisa May Alcott
- Last night, it is true, there were alleviating circumstances that might have been urged.
- Extract from : « The Diary of a Saint » by Arlo Bates
- The Church aimed at alleviating the lot of the slave, not at abolishing slavery.
- Extract from : « Paris and its Story » by Thomas Okey
- Could this money be more usefully employed than in alleviating these evils?
- Extract from : « Arthur Mervyn » by Charles Brockden Brown
- Although I am desirous of alleviating this, I cannot, as I also am poor.
- Extract from : « The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVII, 1609-1616 » by Various
- Not for a friend; that would have had alleviating circumstances.
- Extract from : « A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence » by Cornelius Tacitus
- When the long wished-for dawn at last broke on us, instead of alleviating, it rather added to, our distress.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, Issue 403, December 5, 1829 » by Various
- The best apology I can make for the practice of gaming is, the hope of alleviating this most abominable system of starvation.
- Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
- This last was thrown in by way of alleviating the fears of the cowardly Hank, for whom Bud had a great contempt.
- Extract from : « The Hoosier Schoolmaster » by Edward Eggleston