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{"id": "alleviate", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "alleviate", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "alleviative", "text": "alleviative"}, {"id": "alleviator", "text": "alleviator"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English: from late Latin alleviat- \u2018lightened\u2019, from the verb alleviare, from Latin allevare, from ad- \u2018to\u2019 + levare \u2018raise\u2019, influenced by levis \u2018light\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/alleviate_gb_2.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u0259\u02c8li\u02d0v\u026ae\u026at"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe"], "examples": [{"text": "he couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it"}, {"text": "measures to alleviate unemployment"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0023680.005", "shortDefinitions": ["make suffering, deficiency, or problem less severe"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "reduce"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ease"}, {"language": "en", "text": "relieve"}, {"language": "en", "text": "take the edge off"}, {"language": "en", "text": "deaden"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dull"}, {"language": "en", "text": "diminish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lessen"}, {"language": "en", "text": "weaken"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lighten"}, {"language": "en", "text": "attenuate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "allay"}, {"language": "en", "text": "assuage"}, {"language": "en", "text": "palliate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "damp"}, {"language": "en", "text": "soothe"}, {"language": "en", "text": "help"}, {"language": "en", "text": "soften"}, {"language": "en", "text": "temper"}, {"language": "en", "text": "control"}, {"language": "en", "text": "still"}, {"language": "en", "text": "quell"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tone down"}, {"language": "en", "text": "blunt"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dilute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "moderate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "mitigate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "modify"}, {"language": "en", "text": "abate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lull"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pacify"}, {"language": "en", "text": "placate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "mollify"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sweeten"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "alleviate", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0000457.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "alleviate"}], "type": "headword", "word": "alleviate"}], "word": "alleviate"}
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