Definition of palliate Palliate
pal•li•ate
We found 14 definitions of palliate from 6 different sources.
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What does palliate mean?
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| palliate - provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" | ||
| relieve, alleviate, assuage | ||
| ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better make amendments to; "amend the document" | ||
| soothe cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation" | ||
| comfort, ease lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs" | ||
| palliate - lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" | ||
| extenuate, mitigate | ||
| apologise, apologize, justify, rationalise, rationalize, excuse acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes" | ||
| jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
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Wiktionary 
- palliate (Verb)
To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate. - palliate (Verb)
To cover or disguise the seriousness of a mistake, offence etc. by excuses and apologies. - palliate (Verb)
To placate or mollify. - palliate (Adjective)
Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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palliate
To make easier to endure; provide physical relief, as from pain.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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palliate
pal′i-āt, v.t. to cover, excuse, extenuate: to soften by pleading something in favour of: to mitigate.—n. Palliā′tion, act of palliating: extenuation: mitigation.—adj. Pall′iātive, serving to extenuate: mitigating.—n. that which lessens pain, disease, &c.—adj. Pall′iātory. [L. palliāre, -ātum, to cloak—pallium, a cloak.]
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🔤- palliate, verb, present, 1st person singular of palliate (infinitive).
- palliate, verb (infinitive).
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