transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To make less severe or intense; mitigate. synonym: relieve.

transitive verb. To alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or disorder).

transitive verb. To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.

To cover with a cloak; clothe.

To hide; conceal.

To cover or conceal; excuse or extenuate; soften or tone down by pleading or urging extenuating circumstances, or by favorable representations: as, to palliate faults or a crime.

To reduce in violence; mitigate; lessen or abate: as, to palliate a disease.

Eased; mitigated.

In zoology, having a pallium; of or pertaining to the Palliata; tectibranchiate.

adjective. Covered with a mantle; cloaked; hidden; disguised.

adjective. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

transitive verb. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

transitive verb. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate.

transitive verb. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing.

verb. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

verb. provide physical relief, as from pain

"The word palliate comes from the Latin palliare, “to cloak”—and providing pain relief was perceived as cloaking the essence of the illness, smothering symptoms rather than attacking disease."

palliation  palliative  pallium  

apologise  apologize  excuse  justify  rationalise  

abate  adjust to  allay  alleviate  alleviated  

palliated  palliates  palliating