alleviate

Other forms of alleviate

past tense

alleviated·

present participle

alleviating·

third person

alleviates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alleviate

What does alleviate mean?

alleviate means "provide physical relief, as from pain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alleviate?

alleviate has 4 syllables: al-le-vi-ate. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /əˈliviˌeɪt/.

What is another word for alleviate?

Close synonyms include relieve, palliate, assuage, facilitate, ease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alleviate a common word?

alleviate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with alleviate?

95 words rhyme with alleviate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.