Palliate

Adjective

 * 1)  Cloaked; hidden, concealed.

Verb

 * 1) To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
 * 2) * 2009, Boris Johnson, The Evening Standard, 15 Jan 09:
 * And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.
 * 1)  To hide or disguise.
 * 2) To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
 * 3)  To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
 * 4) To placate or mollify.
 * 5) * 2007, "Looking towards a Brown future", The Guardian, 25 Jan 07:
 * Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).

Related terms

 * palliation
 * palliative
 * pallium

Thesaurus
abate, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, box in, camouflage, chasten, circumscribe, cloak, color, conceal, condition, condone, constrain, control, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, diminish, disguise, dissemble, downplay, dull, ease, ease matters, excuse, extenuate, foment, give relief, gloss over, hedge, hedge about, hush up, ignore, keep within bounds, lay, leaven, lenify, lessen, lighten, limit, lull, make allowance for, mask, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, narrow, numb, obtund, pad, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, prettify, qualify, reduce, reduce the temperature, regulate by, relieve, restrain, restrict, salve, season, set conditions, set limits, slacken, slake, slow down, slur over, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soothe, stifle, stupe, subdue, sugarcoat, suppress, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, underplay, varnish, veneer, weaken, white, whiten, whitewash

Etymology
From palliatus: (in  the past participle ofpalliare:), from pallium:.

Pronunciation

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Verb

 * Catalan: pal·liar, mitigar, atenuar, remeiar
 * Finnish:
 * French:, atténuer, remèdier à,
 * German: lindern


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Turkish: dindirmek, yatıştırmak, hafifletmek


 * Catalan: pal·liar, encobrir, dissimular
 * Finnish:
 * German: beschönigen


 * Spanish: paliar, cohonestar, encubrir, disimular
 * Turkish: örtbas etmek


 * Finnish: hyvitellä