Definition of palliate

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

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Gloze :: Gloze (v. t.) To smooth over; to palliate.
Lithe :: Lithe (a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
Enantiopathic :: Enantiopathic (a.) Serving to palliate; palliative.
Smooth :: Smooth (a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault..
Palliate :: Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Palliation :: Palliation (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices..
Extenuatory :: Extenuatory (a.) Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..
Color :: Color (v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices..
Palliated :: Palliated (imp. & p. p.) of Palliat.
Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To extenuate; to palliate.
Palliative :: Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults..
Varnish :: Varnish (n.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt..
Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault..
Sweetening :: Sweetener (n.) One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony..
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..
Gloss :: Gloss (v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
Palliate :: Palliate (a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
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