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Palliate vs Delude - What's the difference?

palliate | delude |

As verbs the difference between palliate and delude

is that palliate is to relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate while delude is to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

As an adjective palliate

is cloaked; hidden, concealed.

palliate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.
  • (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
  • (Bishop Fell)

    Verb

    (palliat)
  • To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
  • * 2009 , Boris Johnson, The Evening Standard , 15 Jan 09:
  • And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.
  • (obsolete) To hide or disguise.
  • To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
  • (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
  • To placate or mollify.
  • * 2007 , "Looking towards a Brown future", The Guardian , 25 Jan 07:
  • Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).

    References

    * Paternoster, Lewis M. and Frager-Stone, Ruth. Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth. Second Edition. Amsco School Publications: USA. 1998. ----

    delude

    English

    Verb

    (delud)
  • To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
  • * Burke
  • To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
  • (obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
  • * Dryden
  • It deludes thy search.

    Synonyms

    * (to deceive) deceive, mislead

    Anagrams

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