Definition of Palliate

  • (a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
  • (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
  • (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
  • (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

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