erleichtern — meaning in English
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English meaning
- allay verb To make a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
- ease noun The quality of being simple or effortless.
- exonerate verb To officially clear someone of blame or wrongdoing.
- facilitate verb To make a process easier or help it happen more smoothly.
- facilitation noun The act of making something easier to do.
- lighten verb To make or become brighter.
- relieve verb To ease or reduce pain, distress, or worry.
Senses
erleichtern is used for these senses in English:
- allay (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
- ease (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- ease (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- exonerate (transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
- facilitate To make easy or easier.
- facilitation The act of facilitating or making easy.
- facilitation (physiology) The process of synapses becoming more capable of transmitting the same type of signal each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of these synapses.
- lighten (transitive) To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
allay — full definition
- verb To make a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
- verb To make something unpleasant less severe.
- verb To die down and become calm again.
- verb To combine a metal with a less valuable one, lowering its quality.
ease — full definition
- noun The quality of being simple or effortless.
- noun A relaxed state, free from worry, pain, or awkwardness.
- verb To make something less difficult, painful, or intense.
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