Difference between Alleviate and Facilitate

What is the difference between Alleviate and Facilitate?

Alleviate as a verb is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty. while Facilitate as a verb is to make easy or easier.

Alleviate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.

Example sentence: I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

Facilitate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make easy or easier.To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

Example sentence: Our adversaries - terrorists, foreign intelligence services, and criminals - take advantage of modern technology to hide their communications; recruit followers; and plan, conduct, and encourage espionage, cyber attacks, or terrorism to disperse information on different methods to attack the U.S. homeland and to facilitate other illegal activities.

We hope you now know whether to use Alleviate or Facilitate in your sentence.

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