Usually means: Reducing the severity of symptoms.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word palliating:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. palliating: Merriam-Webster
  2. palliating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. palliating: Vocabulary.com
  4. palliating: Wordnik
  5. palliating: Wiktionary
  6. Palliating, palliating: Dictionary.com
  7. Palliating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Palliating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. palliating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. palliating: FreeDictionary.org
  11. palliating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palliating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. palliating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. palliating: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (palliate)

verb:  To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
verb:  (obsolete) To hide or disguise.
verb:  To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
verb:  (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
verb:  To placate or mollify.
adjective:  (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
▸ Also see palliate


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