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Synonyms for palliate

  • verb

Most common

relieve mitigate mince assuage cloak conceal blanch

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Verb

1. Mitigate

mitigate, relieve, mince, assuage, color US, colour UK, excuse, ease, moderate, dull, blunt, temper, gloss over, diminish, lessen, soften, soothe, varnish, allay, abate, mollify, disguise, damp

Other

cloak, conceal, blanch

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

Related words

Word family
palliation palliative pallium

Forms

Past participle
palliated
e.g. palliated → mitigated, relieved, minced, assuaged…

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or Palliate?

In reference to diseases, to palliate is really to diminish their violence, or partly to relieve the sufferer.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • relieve William taught Sandra to scream to relieve stress.
  • mitigate There are measures you can take to mitigate clumping.
  • mince Don't mince words. Tell me what you really think.
  • assuage This medicine will assuage the pain.
  • cloak There's some cloak-and-dagger stuff going on here.
  • conceal Sami wanted to conceal the crime he had committed.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
palliatesteady
relievefalling
mitigaterising
mincerising
assuagerising
cloakrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
ease1, dull1, damp1
5 letters
color2, blunt1, cloak1, mince1, allay2, abate2
6 letters
excuse2, colour2, temper2, lessen2, soften2, soothe1, blanch1
7 letters
relieve2, conceal2, varnish2, assuage2, mollify3
8 letters
moderate3, disguise2, mitigate3, diminish3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (color2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
pallier
Deutsch
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