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
It certainly palliates irritation of the urinary passages, and helps to relieve against gravel.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
It never palliates the faults even of its best men.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
Sismondi may be rather harsh in pronouncing Petrarch to have been all his life a Troubadour; but there is something in his friendship with the Lord of Milan that palliates the accusation.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
