Palliate

Word PALLIATE
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Hyphenation pal li ate
Pronunciations /ˈpalɪeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Palliate"

What do we mean by palliate?

To make less severe or intense; mitigate. synonym: relieve. transitive verb

To alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or disorder). transitive verb

To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate. transitive verb

Eased; mitigated.

In zoology, having a pallium; of or pertaining to the Palliata; tectibranchiate.

To cover with a cloak; clothe.

To hide; conceal.

To cover or conceal; excuse or extenuate; soften or tone down by pleading or urging extenuating circumstances, or by favorable representations: as, to palliate faults or a crime.

To reduce in violence; mitigate; lessen or abate: as, to palliate a disease.

Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised. adjective

Eased; mitigated; alleviated. adjective

To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. transitive verb

To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate. transitive verb

To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing. transitive verb

Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of verb

Provide physical relief, as from pain verb

To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

To hide or disguise.

To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.

To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.

To placate or mollify.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Palliate

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The word "palliate" in example sentences

The word palliate comes from the Latin palliare, “to cloak”—and providing pain relief was perceived as cloaking the essence of the illness, smothering symptoms rather than attacking disease. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Better to bring the cyst of Islamofascism/terrorism/whatever to the surface through provocation where it can be lanced, no matter how painful that may be in the short term, than to palliate its symptoms through appeasement while letting it fester beneath the surface (with many things like not-torturing-people being appeasement). ❋ Unknown (2010)

He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both are exceedingly gifted individuals with enviable human qualities; both were once cherished friends to me; and both, I think, use rage and spite to palliate their unhealed wounds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Second we will be adding a soothing side of a Velcro to a behind side of a shade, as good as third good palliate in a generosity a bit for a shade to fit upon a batten. ❋ Admin (2009)

This palliate of entrance additionally save our poor backs after a prolonged day upon a vegetable plot. ❋ Admin (2009)

That being said, the monthly paperback column does palliate this a bit. ❋ Catherine McKenzie (2010)

With mid-term elections on the horizon and the influence of former president Lula sidetracked by treatment to palliate his larengyal cancer, Brazil's latest political carnival could find William Waack at the front of the parade. ❋ Eric Ehrmann (2011)

Because of this he is roughly always full of stress as good as stress, nonetheless he is additionally equates to to censor it simply as good as crop up to be during palliate around figures of authority. ❋ Admin (2009)

"It's a hard trail, Liverpool, and only the men that are hard will get through," Charles strove to palliate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Add to this a rampant failure to acknowledge and palliate agonizing symptoms like breathlessness, itching, hiccoughs, nausea, dizziness, bedsores and draining wounds of surgery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The plays in the Series (and arguably those outside of the Series too [4]) focus critical attention on impassioned interactions, asking spectators to imagine how the scenes might have unfolded differently if the participants “foresee [n]” the approaching “tempest” and taken reasonable measures to palliate its effects (Works 11). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Noting that radiation therapists, such as Emil Grubbe, had demonstrated the efficacy of X-rays in treating breast cancer, Keynes buried fifty milligrams of radium in her breast to irradiate her tumor and monitored her to observe the effect, hoping, at best, to palliate her symptoms. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

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