Palliate

Quick meaning: Palliate is a verb meaning To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

Meaning

To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
2. To placate or mollify.
3. Hidden, concealed.
4. (medicine, rare) (of a cure) superficial or temporary.
5. (obsolete) To hide or disguise.
6. (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
7. (obsolete) past participle of palliate (all senses)

Example Sentences

[the] most helpful method of its Cure, which yet if palliate and imperfect would onely make way to more fatal Sickness

[Gordon] Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).

"Ah, dearest!" replied he, "your spirits are exhausted,—perhaps unconsciously oppressed with the idea of that future whose pain and whose peril I have rather heightened than palliated."

If, mindless of palliating circumstances, we are bound to regard the death of the Master-at-arms as the prisoner's deed, then does that deed constitute a capital crime whereof the penalty is a mortal one?

Word Forms

• palliates
• palliating
• palliated

Synonyms for palliate

Depending on context, synonyms include alleviate, assuage, mitigate, extenuate, relieve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assuage, alleviate, relieve, mitigate, extenuate, ameliorize.

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