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How to pronounce “palliative”
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Pronunciation guide for palliative
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of palliative with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- What we can do to die well
I am a palliative care physician
- Definition summary
- Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce palliative
What we can do to die well
I am a palliative care physician
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “palliative”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
- (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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