palliate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

   “And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.”

2. fiil To hide or disguise.
3. fiil To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.

   “April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard We extenuate not our guilt : whatever we sin , we condemn it as mortal : they palliate wickedness , with the fair pretence of veniality”

4. fiil To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.

   “"Ah, dearest!" replied he, "your spirits are exhausted,—perhaps unconsciously oppressed with the idea of that future whose pain and whose peril I have rather heightened than palliated."”

5. fiil To placate or mollify.

   “Bradly stopped dead, too confounded to be appalled. Young Podson! Impossible! He had last seen young Podson, a bank clerk, on the seat of a pub verandah in an inland town ninety miles away, Bradly's last painting town. A noosance, young Podson, only to be palliated on a pub verandah after dinner.”

6. fiil past participle of palliate (all senses)

   “[the] most helpful method of its Cure, which yet if palliate and imperfect would onely make way to more fatal Sickness”

7. sıfat Hidden, concealed.
8. sıfat (of a cure) superficial or temporary.

   “All his industry and sales, did in your estate make but a palliate cure.”