meaning of palliate
1. Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
3. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
4. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
5. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
6. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your
">headaches"
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