Meaning and example
provide physical relief, as from pain
This pill will relieve your headaches
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.963 places alleviate in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 98% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 98%
lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- Known by
- 98%
the state of cohering or sticking together
- Known by
- 98%
show to be right by providing justification or proof
- Known by
- 98%
(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- Known by
- 98%
intellectually productive
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.