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Meanings of mitigative in English

Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.

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        Examples for "palliative"
        Examples for "palliative"
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        Every nursing home needs to link with the community palliative care team.
        Independent.ie
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        Thus, most patients are treated with a palliative intention at first diagnosis.
        Pubmed
        3
        Methods: We retrospectively studied here four consecutive patients, who underwent palliative pneumonectomy.
        Pubmed
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        Results: Eighty-eight pediatric patients were treated to 131 lesions with palliative RT.
        Pubmed
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        This case represents a very rare indication for palliative chest wall resection.
        Pubmed
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        True, some of us had had a go at being lenitive.
        Kalooki Nights
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        I rode to Kensington and procured her a lenitive, with which I returned.
        Anna St. Ives
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        Playing is sometimes an excellent lenitive to calm the mind, and to smother the ardent fire of love.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
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        If he cannot digest a strong-working decoction to eradicate the evil, let him at least take a lenitive to ease it:
        Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07
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        He did the strange thing of touching my arm lightly, a lenitive gesture, his unseen hand coming out of the darkness.
        The Last Ship
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        My dear boy, learn this grand truth now: That philosophy is never satisfactory; it is only mitigatory.
        The Red Acorn
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        From 1905 on they were in decided opposition to the existing system, and were revolutionary rather than merely mitigatory organizations.
        The Crisis in Russia
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        As construction projects gain pace once again, there is an accelerating demand for suitably trained, qualified and experienced archaeologists to undertake necessary mitigatory works.
        The Irish Times
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        I thought initially that these were offences which justified a jail sentence, but the mitigatory circumstances would have converted that to a suspended sentence.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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        Also they had been promised a solution of the noise mystery and was not that in itself sufficient alleviative?
        Jane Allen, Junior
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        In Holland and Belgium, a law introduced to alleviative the suffering of mentally competent adults is routinely used on non-mentally competent adults and even children.
        The Guardian
        Usage of mitigative in English
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        Our study aims to illuminate the mitigative effects of paclitaxel on sepsis-induced ALI and its relevant mechanisms.
        Pubmed
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        Mitigative through the time