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Meanings of palliate in English

Portuguese
aliviar
Catalan
apaivagar
Spanish
aliviar

To make easier to endure; provide physical relief, as from pain.

aliviar
Portuguese
paliar
Spanish
atenuar

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

paliar
Usage of palliate in English
1
Radiation therapy has been used to improve local control and palliate symptoms.
Pubmed
2
Perhaps you think to palliate my fault thus in my own eyes.
The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
3
Treatment strategies are designed to limit tumor progression and palliate hormonal syndromes.
Pubmed
4
This is not an attempt to palliate the foolishness of Billy Folsom.
Tales from Bohemia
5
He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it.
Martin Eden
6
I always confess my own faults, and I will not palliate yours.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
7
He did seek to palliate them by inviting visitors to his house.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
8
Let us consider its difficulties, and palliate while we anticipate its errors.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
9
This expedient to palliate my folly was thought of-butnot by me.
A Personal Record
10
You would palliate your unfaithfulness, represent your fickleness of mind as magnanimity!
The Youth of the Great Elector
11
The Fontan procedure is increasingly being used to palliate univentricular physiology.
Pubmed
12
To prevent their intercourse was impossible; and to palliate its evils only remained.
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
13
At the same time it is not desired to palliate their real defects.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
14
The first impulse of affection is to forget, or instantly palliate the fault.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843
15
I palliate, I do not justify, the conduct of the students.
Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student
16
That he tries to palliate the offence is, sufficient proof of his guilt.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884
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