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palliate
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synonyms: extenuate ???
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Definition:to relieve or lessen symptoms without curing; to mitigate
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“I have plenty of faults of my own: I know it, and I don’t wish to palliate them, I assure you.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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External beam radiation therapy can be used to cure smaller cancers or used for palliation if a large tumor causes discomfort.https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/radiation-therapy/radiation-fact-sheet
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the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Apparently finding this some palliative to his feelings, he smashed the quivering trunk several times more, causing a delirious shower of pale-pink petals to rain down upon his head.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The human females I was allowed to wield were but palliative agents.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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