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palliate verb [ ˈpalɪeɪt ]

• make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause.
• "treatment works by palliating symptoms"
Similar: alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe, take the edge off, assuage, allay, dull, soften, lessen, moderate, temper, mitigate, diminish, decrease, blunt, deaden, abate, lenify,
• disguise the seriousness of (an offence).
• "there is no way to excuse or palliate his dirty deed"
Similar: disguise, hide, gloss over, conceal, whitewash, cover, cover up, camouflage, cloak, mask, paper over, varnish over, excuse, justify, extenuate, minimize, mitigate, make light of, tone down, play down, downplay,
Origin: late Middle English: from late Latin palliat- ‘cloaked’, from the verb palliare, from pallium ‘cloak’.


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