Palliate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

II. Palliate ·adj Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

III. Palliate ·vt To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to Hide.

IV. Palliate ·vt To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to Mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

V. Palliate ·vt To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to Extenuate; as, to palliate faults.