Word
Palliate
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
pal-li-ate
Definition
- a. - Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
- a. - Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
- v. t. - To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
- v. t. - To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by
excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
- v. t. - To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to
mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
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