Crossword-Solution: PALLIATE 8 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Palliate a. Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
Palliate a. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Palliate v. t. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
Palliate v. t. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by
excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
Palliate v. t. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to
mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

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PALLIATE anagram PALETAIL

We have 37 clues for the answer “PALLIATE”

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lessen the severity of (something) without curing it 1 answer
Relieve without curing 1 answer
Make something bad less severe 1 answer
Lessen without curing 1 answer
Ease, as symptoms 1 answer
Ease (symptoms) 1 answer
Make less serious 2 answers
Lessen the intensity of. 2 answers
Relieve pain without getting rid of the cause 4 answers
Relieve pain, grief, or the like to bring comfort 4 answers
De-intensify 5 answers
ALLEVIATE OR REMOVE OR MAKE LESS OPPRESSIVE 11 answers
blanch over 14 answers
gloss over 18 answers
Sugar-coat 19 answers
extenuate 22 answers
Varnish 28 answers
pillow 31 answers
Veneer 31 answers
Salve 33 answers
Vindicate 34 answers
exculpate 37 answers
Conceal 37 answers
Justify 39 answers
Whitewash 40 answers
Alleviate 44 answers
Allay 45 answers
Assuage 46 answers
Unburden 47 answers
Soften 48 answers
Mitigate 50 answers
meliorate 55 answers
Make amends 60 answers
Gloss 62 answers
Excuse 66 answers
Ease 90 answers
Calm 117 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PALLIATE (5)

The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician’s words to excuse or palliate.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
His companions suggested only what could palliate imprudence, or smooth objections; and by the time they had talked it all over together, and he had talked it all over again with Emma, in their walk back to Hartfield, he was become perfectly reconciled, and not far from thinking it the very best thing that Frank could possibly have done.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Did passion warp my heart and head To madness? And, if so, Can madness palliate bloodshed?-- It may be--I shall know When God shall gather up the dead From where the four winds blow.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
Aubyn could lay no claim; and while she had enough prettiness to exasperate him by her incapacity to make use of it, she seemed invincibly ignorant of any of the little artifices whereby women contrive to palliate their defects and even to turn them into graces.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1995
While trying to palliate these misdeeds, the defendant's Attorney turned suddenly to the Judge, saying: "Did your Honour ever lose your temper?" "I fine you twenty-five dollars for contempt of court!" roared the Judge, in wrath.
Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 2007

Quotes with PALLIATE (3)

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Ernest Hemingway
If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated: tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language.
Samuel Johnson Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never s…
Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1978–2019).