palliate

A man who loves France for being military will palliate the army of 1870.

To palliate means to make comfortable by treating a person's symptoms from an illness.

He tried to palliate his guilt before you by involving me in its responsibility."

Around him, a dismay which no amount of moonlight could palliate gripped the hills.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.

He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it.

Radiation therapy may be used to palliate central disease or distant metastases.

In 1982 the country was affected by the worldwide recession and the Government had to take economic measures to palliate the crisis that is developed.

I was gladdened by it, although it does little to palliate my sense of loss.

There's no longer a Labour government to palliate such idiocy with legislation, my dear.

To palliate Senate and House leaders, she read selections from the reports taking issue with her judgment, but would not hand them over.

Radiation is also employed to palliate specific locations of disease that may be causing symptoms.

There has been in the past no excuse, no circumstance, that could palliate the offense.

The United Nations ends up trying to palliate a chaos that is likely to endure over many years.

It is possible to palliate without cure.

It did not palliate the fact that they were siren-bare as Eve in the Garden.

But, having diagnosed his condition, they had hastened to palliate it through the resources of a super-human Science.

Perhaps as a rule poisonous substances palliate the symptoms which they cause, or which follow their use.

"I won't ask you to palliate mine, but I may be able to ease yours.

Tichenor stated that the name was chosen "to palliate their gross failure."

Or at least palliate the wounds.

You don't cure heart disease or kidney disease, you palliate it.

This expedient to palliate my folly was thought of--but not by me.

Gilda looked out for awhile in silence, her heart aching with the misery which she beheld, yet could not palliate.

The most valuable lives are daily destroyed by diseases that it is dangerous to palliate and impossible to cure by medicine.