adj eased; mitigated; alleviated.
2. palliate ·adj covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
3. palliate ·vt to cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
4. palliate ·vt to reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
5. palliate ·vt to cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.