- verb
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- make(esp a pain or disease) less severe or unpleasant, withoutremoving its cause; alleviate [Barron]
- to reduce the violence of (a disease) [Taisha]
- lessen the severity of; to make something appear less serious, to alleviate, to gloss over [Nandigam]
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