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Relieve pressure with everything consumed by me (8)

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I believe the answer is:

palliate

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'relieve' is the definition.
(I know that relieve can be written as palliate)

'pressure with everything consumed by me' is the wordplay.
'pressure with' becomes 'p' (abbreviation. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'everything' becomes 'all' (all things).
'consumed' becomes 'ate' (to eat is to consume food).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'me' becomes 'I'.
'ate' after 'i' is 'iate'.
'p'+'all'+'iate'='PALLIATE'

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(Other definitions for palliate that I've seen before include "Allay" , "Eat a pill (anag) - make easier" , "Soften (the effect of)" , "everything before I cut into spread" , "Mitigate (something bad)" .)

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