🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

palliare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: palliare

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Palliate/ˈpælieɪt/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il medico ha cercato di palliare i sintomi."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To make a disease or its symptoms less severe without removing the underlying cause.

    "The medication was able to palliate the patient's severe chronic pain."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin palliatus 'cloaked', from pallium 'cloak'.

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