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Meaning of 'palliate' (Webster Dictionary)

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

Meaning of 'palliate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . palliate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Example in sentence:
  • The circumstances extenuate the crime
Meaning (2):
- provide physical relief, as from pain
Example in sentence:
  • This pill will relieve your headaches

Nearby Words:

pal palace palacious paladin paladiumize paladumenta palaeo- palaeographer palaeographic palaeotype

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