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p a l l i a t e hex:#112;#97;#108;#108;#105;#97;#116;#101;
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- 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.
- Palliated - imp. & p. p. - of Palliate
- Color - v. t. - To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
- Gloss - v. t. - To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
- 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.