| 单词 | palliative |
| 释义 | palliative (once / 10755 pages) adjn That which is palliative relieves and soothes, but isn’t expected to cure. A heating pack is a commonly employed palliative for temporarily reducing the pain of strained muscles. From the French palliatif, which in turn came from the Middle Latin palliates, palliative was first recorded as an adjective in the 1540’s, and then later as a noun in 1724. To palliate is to alleviate without curing, so it makes sense that a palliative is the agent for this type of relief. “Life as we find it, is too hard for us: it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks,” said the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. “In order to bear it, we cannot dispense with palliative measures…” WORD FAMILYpalliative: palliatives+/palliate: palliated, palliates, palliating, palliation, palliative/palliation: palliations USAGE EXAMPLES"The truce is a palliative," Alexei Malashenko, a Middle East expert with Carnegie Moscow, a think tank, said in an interview. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Frist, a former U.S. senator, also backs Aspire Health, which sends palliative care clinicians to people’s homes. Washington Times(Dec 04, 2016) Palliative care focuses on easing symptoms such as pain and shortness of breath that are often overlooked amid aggressive efforts to save seriously ill patients. Wall Street Journal(Dec 02, 2016) 1adj moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear Syn alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory moderating lessening in intensity or strength 2n remedy that alleviates pain without curing Syn|Hyper alleviant, alleviator curative, cure, remedy, therapeutic a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain |
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