palliate

Speech parts

1. palliate - Adjective

2. palliate - Verb

Meaning

Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

extenuate hide relieve conceal alleviate mitigate assuage help varnish whiten whitewash reduce cover decrease moderate
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Antonyms

tingle allow blight chastise chasten damage
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Hypernyms

better improve excuse amend apologize ameliorate

Hyponyms

ease comfort soothe

Phrases with the word

to palliate

Derivatives

palliated palliating

Examples

...in order to palliate to his Mahomedan subjects, the crimes by which he had become their sovereign, he determined to enforce the conversion of the Hindoos throughout his empire by the severest penalties, and even threatened the sword. Aurangzeb

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles. Anaïs Nin

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own. Samuel Johnson

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The circumstances extenuate the crime Source: Internet

To help palliate hardship resulting from the stay-at-home order in the State, NLNG donated food items to its host communities. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

palliardise palliardize palliasse palliation palliative palliative care