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

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