Usually means: Relief of symptoms, not cure.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. palliative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. palliative: Merriam-Webster
  3. palliative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. palliative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. palliative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. palliative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Palliative, palliative: Wordnik
  8. palliative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. palliative: Wiktionary
  10. palliative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. palliative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. palliative: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. palliative: Dictionary.com
  14. Palliative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Palliative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. palliative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. palliative: Rhymezone
  18. palliative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. palliative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. palliative: FreeDictionary.org
  21. palliative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. palliative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Palliative: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. palliative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palliative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. palliative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. palliative: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. Palliative: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  8. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  10. palliative: Medical dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See palliatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
adjective:  (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
noun:  (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

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