'alleviates' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of making something less serious, painful, or difficult. For example, "This new law alleviates many of the strict restrictions that were in place before."
Indeed, the subsequent "bounce back" in the pound, while ominous, makes the inflation picture even more benign and alleviates the pressure on living standards in the runup to the election.
"Essentially it alleviates the suffering people endure just to collect water and take it home.
Of course, thanks to China's rapid economic progress, the country already alleviates a lot of poverty each day: last year the number of rural poor fell by 16.5m or over 45,000 people per day.
Waiting lists, irksome to British patients, were viewed as an advance on a system where the well-off push to the front of the queue in return for generous backhanders.Politically, the vogue for NHS-inspired health care could suit Britain's governing coalition, because it alleviates the bad news about domestic failures.
It alleviates the pain, but masks the illness.
A sad spinster, her broad backside clad in a "good wool skirt", she plays aunt to the Keane children which, although making her feel useful, never quite alleviates the "ache of hollow longing" or her awareness of "her own arms being empty".
It alleviates panic and buys time, but does not eliminate the underlying losses, get rid of the uncertainty about who holds them, or prevent the inevitable credit tightening that will follow.And the bad news is far from finished.
But the phone data can be anonymised and aggregated in a way that alleviates these concerns.
This alleviates the daily grind of dismantling and erecting sets which plagues most opera companies.
The rule alleviates this worry somewhat by allowing banks to buy securities to meet "reasonably expected" demand from customers.In practice banks will probably respond by making markets for a narrow range of securities that already trade frequently, and thus might reasonably be expected to do so in future.
Lula's critics carp that the Family Fund merely alleviates poverty without providing an exit.
