Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
- 2adjective
Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
- 3transitive verb
To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
- 4transitive verb
To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
- 5transitive verb
To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
- 6verb
provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
- 7verb
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
"The circumstances extenuate the crime"
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