Crossword-Solution: PALLIATE
Dictionary
| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PALLIATE | anagram | PALETAIL |
We have 37 clues for the answer “PALLIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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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 2 anagram
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1978–2019).