alleviate-v; 1 Senses

Sense Number 1: provide relief (as if) from pain; make easier

Examples:
Ibuprophen will alleviate the swelling in your leg.
Lowering taxes will alleviate the financial burden on the lower
class.
A selenium supplement alleviated the toxic effects of excessive idodine.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: Cure
PropBank: alleviate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2