palliate

v. alleviate, ease, relieve; allay, lessen; mitigate, moderate, make less severe; cover by apologies and pretexts

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Verb
1. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
(synonym) extenuate, mitigate
(hypernym) apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
(derivation) extenuation, mitigation, palliation
(classification) law, jurisprudence
2. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
(synonym) relieve, alleviate, assuage
(hypernym) better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
(hyponym) soothe
(derivation) palliation

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

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

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

(a.)
Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
  

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

To treat a disease partially and insofar as possible but not cure it completely.

v. a.
1. extenuate
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