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palliate
ˈpalɪeɪt/
verb
gerund or present participle: palliating
  1. 1.
    make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause.
    "treatment works by palliating symptoms"
    synonyms:alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe, take the edge off, assuage, allay, dull, soften, lessen, moderate, temper, mitigate, diminish, decrease, blunt, deaden, abate;
    rarelenify
    "the treatment works by palliating symptoms"
  2. 2.
    disguise the seriousness of (an offence).
    "there is no way to excuse or palliate his dirty deed"
    synonyms:disguise, hide, gloss over, conceal, whitewash, cover, cover up, camouflage, cloak, mask, paper over, varnish over; More
    excuse, justify, extenuate, minimize, mitigate, make light of, tone down, play down, downplay
    "if only there were some way to palliate his dirty deed"
    • allay or moderate (fears or suspicions).
      "this eliminated, or at least palliated, suspicions aroused by German unity"
Origin
late Middle English: from late Latin palliat- ‘cloaked’, from the verb palliare, from pallium ‘cloak’.
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Palliate | Define Palliate at Dictionary.com

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to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate. 2. to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate. Origin of palliate Expand. Late Latin.

Palliating - definition of palliating by The Free Dictionary

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1. to relieve without curing; mitigate; alleviate: to palliate a chronic disease. 2. to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.

Palliate | Definition of Palliate by Merriam-Webster

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to make the effects of (something, such as an illness) less painful, harmful, or harsh. Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. Examples: palliate in a ...

palliate - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

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When you palliate something, you try to make something less bad: “City leaders tried to palliate effects of the trash haulers' strike by distributing extra large ...

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palliating definition: ... ... palliating. Verb. Present participle of palliate. English Wiktionary. Available under CC-BY-SA ... Words near palliating in the dictionary ...

palliating - Wiktionary

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present participle of palliate. Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=palliating&oldid=33526755". Categories: English non-lemma forms ...

palliate - definition of palliate in English from the Oxford dictionary

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Make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cau.... Meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, English to English reference content.

palliate definition and synonyms | Macmillan Dictionary

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Define palliate and get synonyms. What is palliate? palliate meaning, pronunciation and more by Macmillan Dictionary.

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Synonyms for palliate at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, and definitions. Dictionary and Word of the Day.

Palliating symptoms other than pain. - NCBI

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Aust Fam Physician. 2006 Oct;35(10):766-70. Palliating symptoms other than pain. Fischer J(1). Author information: (1)Calvary Health Care, Bethlehem Hospital, ...

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