Crossword-Solution: PALLIATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palliative | a. | Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. |
| Palliative | n. | That which palliates; a palliative agent. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PALLIATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Extenuating | 1 answer |
| Giving temporary relief. | 1 answer |
| Providing relief, but not a cure | 1 answer |
| Type of care | 1 answer |
| remedy that alleviates pain without curing | 2 answers |
| anodyne | 32 answers |
| Balm | 66 answers |
| soothing | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PALLIATIVE (5)
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.
Good-bye.” “And let us know the day of your appearance as soon as you can.” “I will” Chapter XV “A wandering voice.” Though sheer and intelligible griefs are not charmed away by being confided to mere acquaintances, the process is a palliative to certain ill-humours.
This will always retain its place in operative surgery as a palliative and life-saving operation for carcinomatous stenosis of the lower part of the colon, and in cases of carcinoma of the rectum in which operation is not feasible.
Edgar Caswall again tortured his brain to find any antidote or palliative of this greater evil than before.
Protection as a solution, or at least as a palliative, seemed to the mass of the Republican coalition, even to the former Democrats for all their free trade traditions, not outrageous.
Quotes with PALLIATIVE (3)
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with whi…
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
We've been dead for thousands and thousands of years. Dead or sleeping, depends on how you feel about it at any given moment. But that's okay. The trouble starts when you are born, then everything becomes taxing and temporary. When they pulled us into awareness, they killed us. Then we get saddled with a seven minute relay, at best. A soft limbo that's only palliative and comforting in theory. A momentary respite that's a cosmic joke of course and still resented by the divine…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1969–2011).