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palliate
verb palliated, palliating
- 1. To ease the symptoms of (a disease) without curing it.
2. To serve to lessen the gravity of (an offence, etc); to excuse something to some extent; to mitigate.
3. To reduce the effect of (anything disagreeable).
- Thesaurus: relieve, alleviate, ease, abate, lessen, diminish, mollify, minimize, allay, assuage, soothe, temper; Antonym: exacerbate, intensify.
