Object

• suffering: These grants went far to alleviate the suffering which without them must have, followed the event.

• poverty: The club was meant to help alleviate poverty in Glasgow's East End at the time.

• symptom: You can obtain medications to help alleviate the symptoms from your doctor.

• boredom: Working out to a DVD also alleviates the boredom of home exercise you can sometimes get.

• congestion: Express train services from these stations would help to alleviate congestion in the capital.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• such: Oestrogens are used in HRT to alleviate menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats and vaginal dryness.

• due: Furthermore, it has the tools with which to actually alleviate pollution problems due to traffic.

Adjective complement

• most: Tips on posture and exercise also help to alleviate most of the discomforts experienced during pregnancy.

Modifying Another Word

• partially: Higher economic growth within the EU could help to partially alleviate the pensions problem.

• temporarily: It can only temporarily alleviate some of the grosser evils of the present system.

• greatly: These two greatly alleviates the selling pressure on the USD since much of the trade deficit goes into " dollar strong hands " .

Used with why or when

• what: Could the planners look at something to alleviate what is only a peak period problem?

Present participle complement

• suffer: He added last week: " If we can alleviate suffering by any means, that is a good thing.