| 单词 | palliate |
| 释义 | palliate (once / 2871 pages) v When you palliate something, you try to make something less bad: “City leaders tried to palliate effects of the trash haulers' strike by distributing extra large garbage cans with tight-fitting lids.” Palliate is the word to use when you want to make something feel or seem better. Palliate doesn’t mean “cure” or “solve.” Instead, something that palliates relieves the symptoms or consequences of something, without addressing the underlying cause. Your dentist might give you pain-killing drugs to palliate the discomfort caused by an impacted molar, but that molar is still there, waiting to cause more trouble. WORD FAMILYpalliate: palliated, palliates, palliating, palliation, palliative+/palliation: palliations/palliative: palliatives USAGE EXAMPLESThe solution to terrorism is not to pass imperfect laws that will palliate the masses until next time. Wall Street Journal(Jun 15, 2016) His role, he said, was “not to ‘sell’ the U.S.A. but to ‘explain’ it, not to palliate its blemishes but to contextualize them.” New York Times(May 03, 2016) Doctors are trained first to diagnose, treat and fix — and second, to comfort, palliate and soothe. New York Times(Apr 12, 2016) 1v lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of Syn|Hyper extenuate, mitigate apologise, apologize, excuse, justify, rationalise, rationalize defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning 2v provide physical relief, as from pain Syn|Hypo|Hyper alleviate, assuage, relieve soothe cause to feel better comfort, easelessen pain or discomfort; alleviate ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better |
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