Palliative primarily given to sick? (4)
I believe the answer is:
pill
'palliative' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'primarily given to sick?' is the wordplay.
'primarily' becomes 'p' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'given to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'sick?' becomes 'ill' ('ill' can be similar in meaning to 'sick').
'p'+'ill'='PILL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pill that I've seen before include "Dreadful person" , "Dose of medicine" , "Medical tablet" , "Form of medicine" , "Lozenge" .)