Made less severe, intense, or burdensome; reduced in pain or difficulty.
Past participle of alleviate, from Old French alever. The -ated ending marks this as the completed or resultant state of the alleviating process.
When doctors talk about 'alleviated symptoms,' they're admitting they can't cure you—just make it hurt less, which is actually one of medicine's greatest achievements and often just as valuable as a cure.
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