PALLIATE
(verb) provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
synonyms : alleviate , assuage , relieveWe have no choice but to palliate the illnesses we cannot cure. -added by naila_inlas
The medicine alleviated his pain. -added by naila_inlas
(verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
"The circumstances extenuate the crime"
synonyms : extenuate , mitigateThe teachers tried unsuccessfully to palliate the widespread discontent among the students. -added by naila_inlas
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Mnemonics for palliate
(Tag: ) it can be like pale(faint coz of disease)+ate so eating the pain.i.e. reducing it.
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(Tag: ENGLISH) palliate=alleviate
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(Tag: hindi) palli+ate.I was hungry,had pain in the stomach,so ate some palli(groundnut).It eased the pain but didn't cure it.
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(Tag: ) a friend = a PAL will ALLEVIATE your pain.
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(Tag: ) PALL+I+ATE..ease pain.. PALL means become borin.. u got bored of the pain..fed up of it..so u ATE it..to ease the pain..
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(Tag: ) pal(friend) + ate(lessen) >>> a friend always LESSEN OUR PAIN when it grows a lot
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(Tag: ) now here a latin root could help fix few words. Pallere means concealed. cloaked hence something which has become pale . u can find this root in words: palliate: to ease or cloak pain without curing. pall: become pale >less intresting after much
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(Tag: Eng) Pain+Alleviate->Palliate
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(Tag: ) Pall when sick I ate something and i felt better ... same will happen with you.
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