Palliate(a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
Palliate(a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Palliate(v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
Palliate(v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
Palliate(v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
Palliated(imp. & p. p.) of Palliate
Palliating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palliate
Palliation(n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
Palliation(n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
Palliation(n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
Palliative(a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Palliative(n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
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