单词 | alleviator |
释义 | alleviatorn. A person who or thing which alleviates something; a reliever of grief, pain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > one who or that which mitigates or moderates slakea1300 mitigativea1398 allayerc1487 slaker?1518 assuager1547 abater1583 mollifier1583 mitigator1586 moderator1589 softener1599 rebater1601 lightener?1611 allay1614 swager1617 mitigation1622 temperer1630 alleviator1665 alleviative1672 sheather1762 soberera1849 buffer1858 charmer1871 suppressant1884 modifier1890 moderant1897 shock-absorber1924 the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > act, means, or source of consolation or relief > one who or that which consoles or relieves comfortera1382 discharger?1537 consolatora1540 assuager1547 cheerer?1567 easera1592 tame-grief1606 lightener?1611 solacer1611 lenitive1614 swager1617 allayer1631 unbender1637 comfortable1650 alleviator1725 consoler1740 soother1780 reassurer1882 a shoulder to cry on1935 1665 J. Gadbury London's Deliv. Predicted viii. 39 The Stations, Transits, and ill Aspects of Saturn and Mars, in a time of Sickness, are the Augmentors thereof; and the Transits, Aspects and Stations of Jupiter and Venus, the Alleviators. 1725 E. Haywood Mem. Certain Island I. 107 Pity is a vast Alleviator of Grief. 1811 C. Lamb Inconv. Being Hanged in Wks. 560 That kindest alleviator of human miseries. 1834 A. Combe Princ. Physiol. 111 The conversation of a friend is..a powerful alleviator of the fatigue of walking. 1882 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 157 An alleviator of the evils of his individual life. 1914 Living Age 16 May 448/1 What an alleviator is sleep. 1978 Amer. Indian Q. 4 402 Navajos class the physician as an alleviator of symptoms rather than as a curer of disease. 1990 C. N. Mitchell Drug Solution v. 171 The Rx psychoactives..are effective short-term symptom alleviators. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1665 |
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