Palliate
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To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely. Palliation cloaks a disease.
The Latin "pallium" referred to a type of cloak in ancient Greece and Rome and, later, to a white woolen band with pendants in front and back worn by the pope or an archbishop as a symbol of full episcopal authority. Pallium was modified to form "palliate," an adjective meaning "cloaked" or "concealed" and a verb meaning "to cloak," "to cloth," or "to shelter." Today "palliation" implies the disguising or concealing of badness or evil and suggests the alleviation of the vile effects of wickedness or illness.
Dictio-definitions :
1. To cause to appear less guilty.
2. Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.
3. Remedy that alleviates pain without curing.
4. Something that alleviates or lessens a problem.
5. Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure.
6. To conceal or make light of a fault or offense.
7. To make less severe or more bearable.
8. To make less severe or intense.
9. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
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Usage :
1. Edgar Caswall again tortured his brain to find any antidote or palliative of this greater evil than before.
2. The hope, if I could only live long enough, of increasing it to a certain sum, has impelled me to resist the disease by such palliative means as I could devise.
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Synonyms :
allay, alleviate, apologize for, calm, cloak, conceal, conciliate, cover, diminish, disguise, ease, excuse, extenuate, glaze, gloss, gloss over, hide, lessen, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, relieve, soften, soothe, sugarcoat, temper, whitewash
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Hindi :
अल्पीकरण, कम
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