| It implies a change or a course of events that can be reversed, or whose consequences can at least be palliated or relativized. |
| The lack of reading materials may be palliated by the collection and transcription of oral traditions and of existing recordings. |
| No such consideration palliated the treatment they received in the north. |
| Where defects are uncurable, the teacher must show how they may be palliated and sometimes even converted into graces. |
| Frustration was palliated by a perception that the region was far more complex than the uninitiated suspected, and that to understand its dynamics one had to be an expert. |
| Symptoms such as hemoptysis, dyspnea, and chest pain often can be effectively palliated by external beam radiation. |
