palliate
verb (used with object)
palliates
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present tense formof palliate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Counting it no doubt palliates if not deadens any reservations.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017
But the art that palliates Humbert’s misery has not notably relieved the distress of reviewers, most of whom have felt obliged to ask themselves, “Why has the author done this horrid thing?”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 1958
The achievement of copying the entire Bible with one's own hand in that age is so great that it palliates some of the glaring evils of the inhuman system of monasticism.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
Yet the former history of Poland hardly palliates the position which the sovereigns and states of Europe have assumed towards her.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
Another State Paper palliates the deportations by blazoning the descent of a solitary invader upon a remote island on the 12th of April, heralded by mysterious warnings from the Admiralty to the Irish Command.
From Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald John McNeill
