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Definition
to make something less bad — especially pain or an offense
- Still, Nye was glad to have seen it; each item-the palliatives for sore gums, the greasy Honolulu pillow-gave him a clearer impression of the owner and his lonely, mean life.3 — Answer (22% in)
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