lenire (to soften; to make less painful or disagreeable; e.g., dolores, miseriam, aegritudinem): mitigare (to make milder: iram, tristitiam, severitatem, dolorem, labores, febrem, etc.): mollire (to soften: iram, impetum): levare, allevara (to lighten; partially remove: lavare luctum, metum, molestias, curam: also levare aliquem luctu, Liv.: allevare sollicitudines, onus): sublevare (pericula, offensionem, res adversas): laxare (to lessen the tightness of anything that compresses: laborem, Liv.): expedire: explicare (to render the performance of anything easier): temperare (to temper by an admixture of an opposite feeling; e.g., hilaritatis or tristititae modum, Cic.). To alleviate anybody’s labor, partem laboris alicui minuere: to alleviate in some degree, aliqua ex parte allevare.