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Alleviation
- noun - the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
- the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
Alleviative
- adjective - moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Alleviators
- noun - a therapist who makes suffering more endurable
- remedy that alleviates pain without curing
Alleviatory
- adjective - moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Altercating
- verb - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
Altercation
- noun - An argument or disagreement.
- noisy quarrel
Altercative
- - Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
Alternately
- adverb - in an alternating sequence or position; "They were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing"; "he planted fir and pine trees alternately"
Alternating
- verb - (of a current) reversing direction; "alternating current"
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate"
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
Alternation
- noun - successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; "a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes"