lev-, levi-

1. To make something such as pain or hardship more bearable or less severe.
2. To make easier to endure; to lessen; to mitigate: "to alleviate sorrow"; "to alleviate pain".
3. From Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of alleviare "to lighten", from Latin ad-, "to" plus levis, "light (in weight)".

1. The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; relief, assuagement.
2. The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); easing, easement, relief.
3. The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease.

1. Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.
2. Reducing pain or severity; palliative: "The doctor provided alleviative treatment for the incurable disease."

1. To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; to lift.
2. To increase the amplitude, intensity, or volume of.
3. To promote to a higher rank.
4. To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level.
5. To lift the spirits of; to elate.
6. From Latin elevatus, past participle of elevare, "lift up, raise," from ex-, "out" plus levare, "lighten, raise"; from levis, "light."

1. The height to which something is elevated or to which it rises.
2. The altitude of a place above sea level or ground level.
3. An elevated place, thing, or part; an eminence.
4. Loftiness; grandeur or dignity; nobleness: "elevation of the mind."
5. The act of elevating.
6. The state of being elevated.
7. In architure, a drawing or design that represents an object or structure as being projected geometrically on a vertical plane parallel to one of its sides.
8. Also called angle of elevation. the angle between the line from an observer or instrument to an object above the observer or instrument and a horizontal line.
9. The ability of a dancer to stay in the air while executing a step or the height attained.
10. The Elevation, in the Roman Catholic Church, the lifting by the celebrant of the Eucharistic elements immediately after consecration, for adoration by the communicants.

1. A lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building.
2. A storehouse for grain, equipped with a mechanism for taking in, lifting, and discharging the grain.
3. A machine with scoops or similar devices for hoisting something to a higher level.
4. A hinged flap, either of a pair on the rear portion of the horizontal stabilizing surface or tailplane of an aircraft, used to control the aircraft's up-and-down movement.
5. On an aircraft carrier, a mechanized platform that transports aircraft from a below-the-deck hangar up to the flight deck and vice versa.
6. A muscle that contracts to lift a part of the body.

An abnormal dread of being in an elevator, of being trapped in an elevator, or of being harmed by a free-falling elevator.

Tending to raise, or having the power to elevate; such as, "elevatory forces".

1. A display of skill or cleverness, especially for deceitful purposes; trickery; deception: "She performed a dazzling display of political legerdemain."
2. Sleight of hand; magic tricks; any illusory feat.
3. Etymology: from about 1430, "conjuring tricks", from Middle French (as written and spoken approximately between 1400-1600) léger de main, "quick of hand" from léger, "light" in weight. Previously from Latin levis, "light" plus Latin main (manus), "hand".