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alleviate, the sufferer. Assuage is, by derivation, to sweeten; mitigate, to make mild; moderate, to bring within
measure; abate, to beat down, and so make less. We abate a fever; lessen anxiety; moderate passions or
desires; lighten burdens; mitigate or alleviate pain; reduce inflammation; soften, assuage, or moderate grief;
we lighten or mitigate punishments; we relieve any suffering of body or mind that admits of help, comfort, or
remedy. Alleviate has been often confused with allay. Compare ALLAY.
Antonyms:
aggravate, embitter, heighten, intensify, make worse. augment, enhance, increase, magnify,
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ALLIANCE.
Synonyms:
coalition, confederation, fusion, partnership, compact, federation, league, union. confederacy,
Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid
in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used
of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is
no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are
used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to
unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much
concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word
expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128.
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The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to
be styled a federal union.
Antonyms:
antagonism, disunion, enmity, schism, separation, discord, divorce, hostility, secession, war.
Prepositions:
Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between,
or among nations.
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ALLOT.
Synonyms:
appoint, destine, give, portion out, apportion, distribute, grant, select, assign, divide, mete out, set apart.
award,
Allot, originally to assign by lot, applies to the giving of a definite thing to a certain person. A portion or
extent of time is allotted; as, I expect to live out my allotted time. A definite period is appointed; as, the
audience assembled at the appointed hour. Allot may also refer to space; as, to allot a plot of ground for a
cemetery; but we now oftener use select, set apart, or assign. Allot is not now used of persons. Appoint may
be used of time, space, or person; as, the appointed day; the appointed place; an officer was appointed to this
station. Destine may also refer to time, place, or person, but it always has reference to what is considerably in
the future; a man appoints to meet his friend in five minutes; he destines his son to follow his own profession.
Assign is rarely used of time, but rather of places, persons, or things. We assign a work to be done and assign
a man to do it, who, if he fails, must assign a reason for not doing it. That which is allotted, appointed, or
assigned is more or less arbitrary; that which is awarded is the due requital of something the receiver has
done, and he has right and claim to it; as, the medal was awarded for valor. Compare APPORTION.
Antonyms:
appropriate, deny, resume, seize, confiscate, refuse, retain, withhold.
Prepositions:
Allot to a company for a purpose.
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ALLOW.
Synonyms:
admit, consent to, let, sanction, tolerate, concede, grant, permit, suffer, yield.
We allow that which we do not attempt to hinder; we permit that to which we give some express
authorization. When this is given verbally it is called permission; when in writing it is commonly called a
permit. There are establishments that any one will be allowed to visit without challenge or hindrance; there are
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others that no one is allowed to visit without a permit from the manager; there are others to which visitors are
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