Palliate

['pælɪeɪt] or ['pælɪet]

Definition

(a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

(a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

(v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

(v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.

(v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Extenuate, excuse, gloss, apologize for.[2]. Allay, ease, soothe, mitigate, moderate, assuage, alleviate, soothe, soften, abate, mollify, lessen, diminish, relieve, dull, blunt, quiet, still, quell.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Cloak, cover, conceal, extenuate, mitigate, soften, soothe, gloze

ANT:Expose, denounce, exaggerate, aggravate, magnify

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Definition

v.t. to cover excuse extenuate: to soften by pleading something in favour of: to mitigate.—n. Palliā′tion act of palliating: extenuation: mitigation.—adj. Pall′iātive serving to extenuate: mitigating.—n. that which lessens pain disease &c.—adj. Pall′iātory.

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