Definition of palliate

• 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.