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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alleviating, alleviative, alleviator, allowance, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cleansing, color, cushion, deadening, decontamination, demulcent, dolorifuge, dulling, easing, emollient, excusatory, excusing, extenuating, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, extenuatory, gilding, gloss, justificatory, justifying, lenitive, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, mitigator, mitigatory, moderator, modificatory, modifying, modulator, modulatory, mollifier, numbing, pacificator, pacifier, pain-killing, palliation, peacemaker, purgative, qualification, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, refuting, rehabilitative, relieving, remedial, restraining hand, restricting, restrictive, salve, sedative, shock absorber, softening, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, stabilizer, subduing, temperer, tranquilizer, varnish, vindicative, vindicatory, whitewash, whitewashing, wiser head
Dictionary Results for palliative:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
palliative
    adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
           [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive,
           mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]
    n 1: remedy that alleviates pain without curing [syn:
         palliative, alleviant, alleviator]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Palliative \Pal"li*a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. palliatif.]
   Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or
   alleviate.
   [1913 Webster]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Palliative \Pal"li*a*tive\, n.
   That which palliates; a palliative agent. --Sir W. Scott.
   [1913 Webster]
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