Palliate

Definitions: Palliate

Palliate

Verb

1. Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime".

2. Provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches".

Date "palliate" was first used: some time in the early 15th century. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Palliate (3 syl.) means simply to cloak. (Latin, pallium, a cloak.) "That we should not dissemble nor cloke them [our sins]. but confess them with a humble, lowly, and obedient heart."- Common Prauer Book. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Palliate

Synonyms: alleviate (v), assuage (v), extenuate (v), mitigate (v), relieve (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improvement	Palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil.
Moderation	Moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken; lessen; (decrease); check palliate.
Relief	Verb: relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften, soften down; foment, stupe, poultice; assuage, allay.
Remedy	Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure.
Vindication	Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Palliate

English words defined with "palliate": Enantiopathic, Extenuatory ♦ Gloze ♦ Palliated, Palliating ♦ To go about. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Radiation is recommended to palliate symptoms in patients with metastatic disease. (references)
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"Palliate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Palliate" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	9	117,287

Expressions using "palliate": check palliate ♦ palliate a pain. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "palliate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), lehtësoj (allay, alleviate, assuage, attenuate, calm, dull, enable, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, relax, release, relieve, shake, soften, solace, soothe). (various references)

Arabic		‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏سكن الالم (mitigate), ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down). (various references)

Bulgarian		успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), омаловажавам (belittle, decry, denigrate, discount, disparage, enfeeble, extenuate, make little of, minify, minimize, play down, stultify, talk down, understate, whittle away), облекчавам (allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, comfort, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, redress, relieve, soothe, sweeten, unburden, unload), извинявам (excuse, justify, overlook, pardon). (various references)

Czech		prominout (condone, excuse, forgive, overlook, pardon, remit), zmírnit (allay, alleviate, break, cushion, deaden, defuse, dilute, ease, extenuate, loosen, mitigate, relieve, remit, slacken, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tone down, understate), zlehèovat (detract, make light of, vilify), omlouvat (condone). (various references)

Farsi		موقتاارام کردن , تسکین دادن (Appease, Mitigate, Pacify, Placate, Propitiate, Quell, Salve, Smooth). (various references)

French		pallier, lénifier, atténuer. (various references)

German		lindern (allay, alleviate, ease, mitigate, relieve, soothe, to alleviate, to ease, to mitigate, to palliate), beschönigen (embellish, excuse, extenuate, gloss over, to colour, to palliate, varnish, whitewash). (various references)

Greek		μετριάζω (abate, allay, attenuate, damp, extenuate, mitigate, moderate, qualify, remit, season, temper, tone down), πραΰνω (mitigate, soothe), ανακουφίζω (allay, alleviate, comfort, disburden, ease, relieve, unburden). (various references)

Hebrew		למחול (absolve, forgive, pardon, remit, renounce), ל�"מתיק עו� ש (commute), ל�"קל (ease, extenuate, facilitate, mitigate, moderate, relieve, remit, slight), לסלוח (condone, excuse, forgive, pardon). (various references)

Hungarian		menteget (exculpate, excuse, to exculpate, to salve), enyhít (allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, extenuate, mitigate, moderate, relieve, soft pedal, soothe, to abate, to allay, to alleviate, to appease, to assuage, to blunt, to deaden, to dull, to extenuate, to mitigate, to mollify, to relax, to release, to salve, to slacken, to soften, to still, to water down), csillapít (assuage, attenuate, mitigate, salve, sate, soothe, to allay, to alleviate, to appease, to assuage, to attenuate, to deaden, to mitigate, to mollify, to salve, to sedate, to soothe). (various references)

Italian		mitigare (abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attanuate, attenuate, become mild, calm down, lessen, lighten, loosen, mince, mitigate, relax, relieve, soften, soothe). (various references)

Manx		meelaghey (appease, appeasement, mangle, moisten, moistening, palliative, soften), jannoo leshtal (apologise). (various references)

Pig Latin		alliatepay.(various references)

Portuguese		procurar atenuar, paliar, suavizar (allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, gentlefolks, mitigate, salve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tone down, unload), mitigar (abate, alleviate, assuage, Bate, blunt, lightening, mitigate, quench, relieve, salve, sate, slake, soften, soothe), dissimular (conceal, disguise, dissemble, dissimulation, mask, occultism), desculpar (apologize, condone, exculpate, excuse, forgave, forgive, instantly, justify, make allowance for, pardon), colchão de palha (paillette), aliviar (allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, comfort, console, disburden, ease, lighten, redress, relieve, salve, still, unburden). (various references)

Romanian		uşura (alleviate, appease, calm, disburden, ease, facilitate, lighten, pacify, relax, relieve, respite, solace, soothe, speed), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), fi un paliativ pentru, alina (abate, allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, lighten, lull, mitigate, relieve, set in a row, solace, soothe, stop, temper), îndulci (alleviate, break, delight, dulcify, mellow, modify, satisfy, smooth, soften, sugar, sweeten, tame). (various references)

Russian		временно облегчать, облегчать (allay, alleviate, appease, ease, facilitate, lighten, make ~ easy, mitigate, release, relieve, unburden), извинять (excuse, justify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		umiriti (appease, attemper, grow quiet, pacify, placate, quieten, soothe, tranquilize), ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, ease, lessen, mince, mitigate, moderate, mollify, redeem, soft pedal, soften, soothe, temper, tone down). (various references)

Spanish		paliar (gloss over, varnish), reducir algo (abate). (various references)

Swedish		skyla över (cover up), lindra (abate, alleviate, appease, assuage, ease, mitigate, physic, relieve, salve, soothe), förmildra (extenuate), bagatellisera (extenuate, make light of, underplay). (various references)

Turkish		mazur göstermek (blanch over, excuse, extenuate, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, warrant), hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash). (various references)

Ukranian		тимчасово полегшувати, зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), приховувати (becloud, blind, cache, cloak, conceal, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, obumbrate, put by, salt away, stash away, subduct, veil, vizor, wry). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pallium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "palliate": palliated, palliates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Palliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Callixte, Kalliste, pabloite, Paillat, paleate, paleatte, paliate, palinate, palitate, palite, pallate, pallatte, pallete, pallia, palliata, Pallistar, Pallisteur, Palojame, Paulista, Pavlita, peliatan, pellate, pelliti, pliate, poliate, Rallidae. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-p-t"
	-1 letter: patella.
	-2 letters: aplite, paella, palate, paleal, pallet, pallia, taille, telial.
	-3 letters: alate, ileal, lapel, leapt, lepta, palea, palet, petal, pieta, pilea, plait, plate, pleat, telia, tepal.
	-4 letters: alae, alit, atap, ilea, late, lati, leal, leap, lept, lilt, lipa, lipe, lite, pail, pale, pall, pate, peal, peat, pelt, pial, pile, pill, pita, plat, plea, plie, tael, tail, tala, tale, tali, tall, tapa, tape, teal, tela, tell, tepa, tile, till.
	-5 letters: aal, ail, ait, ala, ale, all, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, ell, eta, ill, lap, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lip, lit, pal, pat, pea, pet, pia, pie, pit, tae, tap, tea, tel, tie, til, tip.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-p-t"
	+1 letter: palliated, palliates, papillate, tailplane.
	+2 letters: paclitaxel, palatalize, palliative, tailplanes.
	+3 letters: allopatries, aphetically, appellation, appellative, aseptically, basipetally, caterpillar, epitaxially, implantable, ipsilateral, paclitaxels, palatalized, palatalizes, palliatives, patrilineal, perinatally, planetoidal.
	+4 letters: allelopathic, alphabetical, antiparallel, appellations, appellatives, biparentally, caterpillars, empathically, emphatically, operatically, palatialness, palliatively, pathetically, pedantically, planetesimal, premaritally.
	+5 letters: allelopathies, apathetically, appealability, appellatively, applicatively, capillarities, explanatively, explanatorily, explorational, ipsilaterally, manipulatable, megalopolitan, operationally, palletization, palpabilities, placabilities, planetesimals, playabilities, pneumatically, problematical, uniparentally.
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