Palliate Synonyms and Antonyms

pălē-āt
To conceal or make light of a fault or offense
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. explain away
  2. extenuate
  3. gloss over
  4. gloze
  5. sleek over
  6. whitewash
To make less severe or more bearable
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. alleviate
  2. mitigate
  3. assuage
  4. extenuate
  5. relieve
  6. apologize for
  7. allay
  8. conceal
  9. excuse
  10. cover
  11. cloak
  12. hide
  13. gloss over
  14. ease
  15. lessen
  16. soften
  17. moderate
  18. whitewash
  19. make-light-of
  20. screen
  21. veil
  22. varnish
  23. comfort
  24. calm
  25. veneer
  26. conciliate
  27. soft-pedal
  28. subdue
  29. diminish
  30. disguise
  31. gloze
  32. bolster up
  33. exculpate
  34. glaze
  35. lighten
  36. vindicate
  37. gloss
  38. justify
  39. lull
  40. mollify
  41. soothe
  42. sugarcoat
  43. temper
Antonyms:
  1. accuse
  2. blame
  3. condemn
To make less severe or intense; mitigate.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relieve

Words Related to Palliate

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Palliate Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • In spite of the weak efforts of the British government to palliate the significance of this " untoward incident," Turkey broke off diplomatic relations with the three powers concerned, and on the 10th of December Mahmud, giving full vent to his rage, issued a hatt-i-sherif denouncing the cruelty and perfidy of the Christian powers, declaring the convention of Akkerman null and void, and summoning the faithful to a holy war.

  • Valves of the Shell of alimentary tract altogether, and must Cytherea (one of the Si be regarded as a special and peculiar palliate Isomya), from the development of the median anterior part pa dorsal aspect.

  • 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.