palliate
IPA: pˈæɫiʌt
verb
- To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
- (obsolete) To hide or disguise.
- To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
- (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
- To placate or mollify.
adjective
- (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.
- (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
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Examples of "palliate" in Sentences
- There was nothing to palliate what he had seen.
- Only role in prostate cancer is to palliate obstruction.
- Doing it in the name of conquest does not palliate the crime.
- He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it.
- That being said, the monthly paperback column does palliate this a bit.
- "It's a hard trail, Liverpool, and only the men that are hard will get through," Charles strove to palliate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).