Synonyms of the word

alleviation

• n. the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
• n. the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement.

assuagement

• n. The action of assuaging; appeasement.
• n. The condition of being assuaged.
• n. An assuaging medicine or application.

comfort

• n. Contentment, ease.
• n. Something that offers comfort.
• n. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
• n. A cause of relief or satisfaction.
• v. (transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
• v. (transitive) To make comfortable.
• v. (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
• v. (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

diminution

• n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
• n. The act or process of making diminutive.
• n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

easement

• n. (law) The legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross…
• n. (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing…
• n. (archaic) Easing, relief.
• n. (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.

easing

• v. present participle of ease.
• n. The act by which something is eased.

reduction

• n. The act, process, or result of reducing.
• n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
• n. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen…
• n. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
• n. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
• n. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction…
• n. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
• n. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness…
• n. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

relief

• n. The removal of stress or discomfort.
• n. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
• n. The person who takes over a shift for another.
• n. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
• n. (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
• n. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; short for tax relief.
• n. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
• n. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation…
• n. The difference of elevations on a surface.
• adj. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
• adj. Of or used in letterpress.

step-down

• adj. That decreases in stages.
• adj. (of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage.