alleviator

Variant of alleviate

transitive verb alleviated, alleviating

  1. to make less hard to bear; lighten or relieve (pain, suffering, etc.)
  2. to reduce or decrease: to alleviate poverty

Origin: ME alleviaten < LL alleviatus, pp. of alleviare, for L allevare < ad-, to + levis, light

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