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Another word for palliate

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palliate

v.

apologize for, make light of, screen, hide, conceal, cover, veil, gloss over, cloak, mitigate, assuage, varnish, veneer, whitewash, soften, soft-pedal, subdue, moderate, gloze, bolster up, exculpate, vindicate, justify, alleviate; see also excuse, extenuate.

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Another word for palliate

verb

To conceal or make light of a fault or offense:
explain away, extenuate, gloss over, gloze (over), sleek over, whitewash. See show
To make less severe or more bearable:
allay, alleviate, assuage, comfort, ease, lessen, lighten², mitigate, relieve. See increase

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But the political dangers to be apprehended from the disruption of the English Church were sufficiently serious to palliate the fraud.
Manganese by itself rather lessens than increases the malleableness and, indeed, the general merit of the metal, but it is added intentionally, in quantities even as large as 1 5 to palliate the effects of sulphur and oxygen.
One great blot on his reputation is that step by step he was led on to palliate violence and crime, to the excesses of which his eyes were only opened by the massacres of September, and which ultimately overwhelmed the party of Girondists which he led.

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