palliate

palliate is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
2. adjective. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
3. transitive verb. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
4. transitive verb. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
5. transitive verb. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
6. verb. provide physical relief, as from pain

   "This pill will relieve your headaches"

   Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve

7. verb. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

   "The circumstances extenuate the crime"

   Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate

Synonyms

alleviate, assuage, relieve, extenuate, mitigate

Common word forms

palliated, palliates, palliating

Words from these letters

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