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    1. It was developed to help reduce inflammation, promote healthy circulation and healing, and alleviate pain and because of its strong odors will repel most insects as well as keep them from eating your plants


    2. Danton’s shoulders twitched as he tried to alleviate the tension that he could now


    3. Danton’s shoulders twitched as he tried to alleviate the tension that he could now feel biting deeply into the base of his neck


    4. This fit of depression is purely the result of overdoing things both on a physical and emotional level … okay, so that makes perfect logical sense … but doesn’t actually alleviate things one iota


    5. ‘The doctor said she would be better in the morning,’ I reminded him, trying to alleviate his concern a little, ‘It is only the stuff he gave her which is making her sleep like that


    6. Often the person will feel the need to wash constantly in order to alleviate "germs"


    7. Selecting the first option could alleviate your burden for a very short while


    8. The exportation of gold and silver is, in this case, not the cause, but the effect of its declension, and may even, for some little time, alleviate the misery of that declension


    9. anything to alleviate the tension that was crushing me


    10. I had expected the man to alleviate

    11. The revenue of an individual may be spent, either in things which are consumed immediately, and in which one day's expense can neither alleviate nor support that of another ; or it may be spent in things mere durable, which can therefore be accumulated, and in which every day's expense may, as he chooses, either alleviate, or support and heighten, the effect of that of the following day


    12. can to alleviate this


    13. The dream may serve to alleviate some tension that has been weighing on you


    14. Merriam-Webster defines it as the “sympathetic consciousness of others' distress, together with a desire to alleviate it


    15. Even leaving the stony confines of the Keep and seeking out fresh morning air could not alleviate the festering frustration


    16. In truth detaching ourselves will not eliminate the unpleasant moment, but it can help alleviate our suffering


    17. The law, contrary to all the ordinary principles of justice, first creates the temptation, and then punishes those who yield to it; and it commonly enhances the punishment, too, in proportion to the very circumstance which ought certainly to alleviate it, the temptation to commit the crime


    18. To alleviate this


    19. His stomach churned and when he tried to turn over to alleviate the feeling it set the hammers in his head pounding


    20. Chemical inducements could alleviate any unbalanced state of mind; unpleasant memories could be erased with the kind of precision that could cut out the smallest of tumors; she would never have to suffer depression or anxiety

    21. ‘It was their sense of obligation to recreate the dead, as a way to alleviate their guilt and appease the remaining humans on this planet


    22. A nurse showed me how to create a soothing powder he mixes with water and drinks to alleviate the headache pain


    23. ” He screwed up his face for a moment, attempting to alleviate the agony within his body


    24. He could do nothing to alleviate the awful burden his friend endured in silence, but stay steadfastly at his side as an emotional anchor


    25. Beth sat sideways with one hand on his thigh and the other twiddling his earlobe, hoping to, somehow, alleviate his pain and worry


    26. The interior of the establishment was not well lit, and the dark wood of its furnishings did little to alleviate the gloom


    27. Rather, the appropriate spiritual response is to do all that we can to alleviate others' suffering with heartfelt concern and compassion


    28. I rolled my shoulders to try and alleviate the pain as Itsuki and I walked back towards the changing rooms


    29. we witnessed? What have you done, Sir, to alleviate the world’s


    30. Ornate summer tunes that comely alleviate living

    31. To some you alleviate distress and ease their conscience in the Ancares


    32. would alleviate the underlying pressure and stress and allow you


    33. deadline for completion be pushed back if that would alleviate the underlying


    34. the techniques the Doc had taught them to help alleviate the pain


    35. they are able to alleviate their symptoms significantly and achieve


    36. And now, mental health professionals have joined the movement, focusing on how simple living can help alleviate tension-related reactions such as insomnia, nervousness, anxiety, neck and shoulder spasms, chronic fatigue and, says Roderick Gorney, MD, PhD, "our excessive dwelling on 'things


    37. Document any other steps you took to alleviate the pain:


    38. around, to try and alleviate that very fear


    39. dearest comforter of the troubled, alleviate our


    40. For many, the vasoconstrictor helps alleviate

    41. This would alleviate the discrepancies in care so well documented by the


    42. behaviourism can be changed to alleviate most of these concerns


    43. The intention of this question? It could be to alleviate ignorance – someone wants to be


    44. When actually you were not wondering that, but rather the cause of his detained flatulence and why he hasn’t sought medical help to alleviate his postponed gaseous byproduct outflow dysfunction


    45. The Conduct-Disordered Abuser: (12+) Teens who abuse animals almost always engage in other antisocial behaviors - substance abuse, gang activities, Sometimes the animal abuse is in conjunction with a deviant peer group (an initiation rite or as a result of peer pressure), while other times it may be used as a way to alleviate boredom or achieve a sense of control


    46. For two years I worked diligently to alleviate suffering and improve the quality of


    47. With a sigh, Colin settled his head back against the coolness of the boulder, hoping to alleviate some of the pain pounding through his head


    48. Therefore, to alleviate the sub-unconscious self begins a process of positive overlays


    49. Sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it


    50. As long as your time and attention is tied up trying to alleviate the pain and














































    1. alleviated when the Emotion Code is employed


    2. In their dependency upon the mother state, they resemble those of ancient Rome; but their great distance from Europe has in all of them alleviated more or less the effects of this dependency


    3. Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal ? Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? Such has been the tone of mercantile expense in those two trading cities, that those exorbitant profits, far from augmenting the general capital of the country, seem scarce to have been sufficient to keep up the capitals upon which they were made


    4. The honours and privileges of different kinds annexed to the former, his Prussian majesty had probably imagined, would sufficiently compensate to the proprietor a small aggravation of the tax; while, at the same time, the humiliating inferiority of the latter would be in some measure alleviated, by being taxed somewhat more lightly


    5. Whatever the exact nature of their estrangement was, it seemed Hollowcrest’s promise of forgiveness had not alleviated it


    6. I struggle with anxiety so badly, but as I have written this series, it as alleviated so much


    7. that PMS symptoms can be greatly alleviated by relaxation and hypnotic suggestion


    8. Fluid retention is alleviated as stored water is lost


    9. are not addressed and alleviated


    10. was not alleviated by observers

    11. Conflicts are often alleviated through sexual acts


    12. As for the feared lack of women qualified on explosives and ordnance handling, the visit in the Chicago area, with candidates also streaming in from Detroit, had alleviated much that deficiency


    13. Mitchell let the moment linger, pulling in the pain he was enduring as a sort of therapy that somewhat alleviated his own


    14. He was alleviated to know that his friday night would not go to waste


    15. The only drawback was a slightly bulkier suit than with the flexible jumpsuit models but that could be partially alleviated by good, thoughtful design, something that had been done according to her suggestions


    16. Mary Enig, chronic fatigue can be alleviated simply by using coconut oil because it contains medium-chain fatty acids that provide energy and fight pathogens in the digestive tract that contribute to fatigue


    17. This problem is alleviated if one purchases from only reputable sources or by manufacturing the colloidal silver at home, thereby guaranteeing the quality of the ingredients used, and by remembering to use moderately


    18. ” I could tell the fear alleviated from her by the way her shoulders relaxed, well, enough that she kept walking with us


    19. With today’s medical knowledge, however, the problem was alleviated immediately, thankfully


    20. The mind-numbing boredom is alleviated by moments of super-elation when

    21. Then he experiences that some events occur in his life such that his problems are solved and he is alleviated from his misery


    22. Also, the peasants thought, why should one be consoled and alleviated? The social difference between the peasant and the pastor was so small and rested so often only on education that it would have appeared equally natural, if the thing could from any point of view have been made natural, for the wife of the peasant to go and console and alleviate the parsonage


    23. This then becomes a progressive regression of expanding Π0Π and heat developing more until a total annihilation of the structure of the star takes place when all the compressed heat in a star becomes liquid and the star is alleviated


    24. In the other they 'shudder’ at the prospect of a doom alleviated by no hope of redemption, and overwhelming the soul by the fear of absolute extermination under the blows of an Almighty hand


    25. Those mice with high blood pressure because of a genetic defect, after intake capsaicin, the disorders alleviated


    26. The majority of these conditions can be alleviated through making sure that the skin stays moist with the use of a moisturizer


    27. "I had speedy proofs that the excellent abbe was engaged in my behalf, for the rigors of my imprisonment were alleviated by many trifling though acceptable indulgences, and I was told that my trial was to be postponed to the assizes following those now being held


    28. My depression was not alleviated by the announcement, for, I had supposed that establishment to be an hotel kept by Mr


    29. To conclude, while from the sister's words he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was, however, it must be owned, not a little alleviated by the intelligence that the issue so auspicated after an ordeal of such duress now testified once more to the mercy as well as to the bounty of the Supreme Being


    30. It was one of his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated vitality

    31. With that threat alleviated, Seevyrs was doing the smart thing and putting additional distance between his ship and the enormous potential bomb waiting on the mudbank


    32. ‘All I say is this: her position is intolerable, and it might be alleviated by you, and you will lose nothing by it


    33. Clinically, bupropion alleviated cocaine withdrawal symptoms only in a


    34. While the problem of bid/ask spread is somewhat alleviated by executing your closing trade as a spread, it’s still likely to be wider for the in-the-money spread than for the out-of-the-money spread


    35. It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his wounds


    36. In the last year the painting classes had alleviated her seclusion somewhat, for the teacher preferred group classes and would bring the other pupils to the sewing room


    37. The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure


    38. And who knows what the mothers, wives, and children of these men suffer by the separation and imprisonment, and the disgrace of it,—who have vainly begged for pardon for their sons, husbands, brothers, or that their lot may be a little alleviated


    39. Hot baths for his hands and steam inhalations no longer had any beneficial effect, though they had alleviated his pain hitherto


    1. Couple this loss of needed activity with the dietary habits of modern man, and constipation, along with numerous other problems, is the likely result! In fact, today, it is common for people to report to hospital emergency rooms with terrible back and sciatic pain, only to be told that they are constipated and given a laxative, which frequently alleviates the back or sciatic pain


    2. Besides, it alleviates the citizens and organizations with the end of the need of payment of tributes


    3. M: Relatively, what causes suffering is wrong, what alleviates it


    4. “Myprix alleviates the jitters,” Cynthia said, “almost as good as not knowing it’s around


    5. suffering, it alleviates us as individuals or as a society of the need to do anything about it—it’s not our fault or our responsibility, it’s simply


    6. anti-inflammatory properties and alleviates pain, such as that associated with RA


    7. prevents and alleviates arthritis


    8. crisis it alleviates the general pressure that is likely


    9. bupropion, alleviates the elevation of ICSS thresholds seen during withdrawal from


    10. Keeping the losses asymmetric versus the wins also alleviates a problem that most new traders experience: A few big losses giving back long-term profits quickly as a market environment changes, and what used to work stops working

    11. But in this, as in other cases, "habit" alleviates their lot, and they bear the cold with a wonderful equanimity


    12. Habit alleviates the grief


    1. After taking his first alleviating drink, he lets out a long sigh, trying to mock whoever may be listening


    2. In other countries, the system of taxation, instead of alleviating, aggravates this inequality


    3. alleviating, aggravates, in most cases, the loss of the creditors of the public; and, without any advantage to the public, extends the calamity to a great number of other innocent people


    4. While summertime is for cold beverages, winter should be about warming up your insides and alleviating any stress


    5. disease and more commonly in alleviating the sensation of pain


    6. Recognizing the lack of necessity to care for the boy, she threw him over her shoulder as one might hold a sack of potatoes, and continued down the hall, alleviating the pain in her arm


    7. As far as I am concerned, illegal drugs have a place for alleviating pain, but that’s only in a few cases


    8. Television sells huge quantities of drugs, such as prescriptions for alleviating some 105


    9. People are fighting back, alleviating a huge problem and then settling down to a lionfish dinner


    10. This was alleviating a major subject of concern for him and General MacArthur

    11. Apart from providing satellite photos and an AWACS surveillance aircraft, the United States was also discreetly helping Japan by allowing Japanese crews to use the war stocks of airborne and shipborne missiles kept in its bases in Okinawa and mainland Japan, thus alleviating a major concern of the Japanese military staff


    12. With all the wealth accumulated from the Zen I crystals he could have constructed another dome making the city larger and alleviating the overcrowding


    13. If these and other treatments are not effective in alleviating all the


    14. The sound quit when the guards turned off the shield, further alleviating his pains


    15. While fibre from dietary or herbal sources is often useful for constipation, it may also play a role in alleviating diarrhoea


    16. The morphine was switched to Dilaudid for pain management alleviating the allergic stupor he was in the day before


    17. The wife of a country pastor had as many duties in her own house as one woman could perform in a day, and nobody expected to see her going about into other houses consoling and alleviating


    18. This interview should ideally go a long way toward alleviating those concerns


    19. Vitamin B2 can assist with alleviating stress as well as reducing symptoms of depression


    20. Besides this artful scheme of Sweater's for getting a good advertisement on the cheap, numerous other plans for providing employment or alleviating the prevailing misery were put forward in the columns of the local papers and at the various meetings that were held

    21. Up to that point, the foundation had devoted more than eighty percent of its charitable giving to alleviating the suffering of the poor and needy through mostly Catholic and some Protestant institutions and programs, with the remainder funding construction projects related to facilities for children with intellectual disabilities


    22. Their effect was not alleviating to poor Fred, who, however, unwilling as he said to believe that he was "in for an illness," rose at his usual easy hour the next morning and went down-stairs meaning to breakfast, but succeeded in nothing but in sitting and shivering by the fire


    23. less, some studies did show improvement in alleviating some symptoms associated


    24. bromocriptine in alleviating the affective aspects of cocaine withdrawal (Eiler et al


    25. prevent relapse while simultaneously alleviating all symptoms associated with


    26. Rob reckoned him much more interested in inflicting pain than alleviating that of starving Guild families


    27. The one alleviating circumstance in the otherwise immitigable tragedy is the fact that so many of the men stood aside really with out the necessity for the order, "Women and children first," and insisted that the weaker sex should first have places in the boats


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    Synonyms for "alleviate"

    alleviate assuage palliate relieve ease facilitate mitigate lessen soothe moderate

    "alleviate" definitions

    provide physical relief, as from pain


    make easier