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provide physical relief, as from pain
This pill will relieve your headaches -
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
The circumstances extenuate the crime
How To Use palliate In A Sentence
- The creeping fractures in both have been palliated by results in recent games, but the coming ones will determine whether those signs of life are indicative of temporary remission or permanent recovery.
- 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. Archive 2009-12-01
- His touches are average dark ambient and he palliates what could otherwise be the sound of dread and belligerence.
- There were 213 patients after exclusion of the 58 patients who were palliated, followed up for less than 24 months or lost to follow-up.
- Chosen carefully, the oils may not only palliate but also cure the condition.
- One must see people undressed to judge truly of their shape; when they are dressed to go abroad, their clothes are contrived to conceal, or at least palliate the defects of it: as full-bottomed wigs were contrived for the Duke of Burgundy, to conceal his hump back. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
- Where recurrent disease is responsible for blockage of lymphatic collaterals, chemotherapy may be tried to palliate the symptomatology.
- There are those tales too of a somewhat grimmer nature concerning the use of humour to palliate the horrors of war.
- Daudet consumed huge amounts of morphine, chloral and bromide in an attempt to palliate his excruciating pains.
- But it wasn't until 1983 that the first successful operation to palliate the anomalies was reported by Norwood.