Thesaurus: palliate

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1. a. Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
2. a. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
3. v. t. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
4. v. t. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
5. v. t. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
6. v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
7. v. provide physical relief, as from pain
8. v lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of v provide physical relief, as from pain