Palliating synonyms
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To mitigate or lessen.
To lessen or reduce:
To ease, lighten, or reduce (pain, anxiety, etc.)
To cover with whitewash
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment.
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To cover or coat with sugar
To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
To undermine or reduce the strength, morale, or resistance of.
(Archaic) To reduce the rigidity of; soften.
To cause to become moderate; make less extreme, violent, etc.; restrain
(Archaic) To belittle; minimize; disparage
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To cut off from sight; cover up:
Gloss is defined as to make or become shiny, or to hide.
To coat or cover thinly with ice.
To consider (an offense or fault) as not important; overlook; pardon
(Music) To reduce (a perfect or minor interval) by a semitone.
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To overlay or spread with something:
To conciliate is to soothe someone's anger or to mediate a disagreement.
To cover as with a cloak.
To calm means to soothe and pacify someone to make him free of stress, or to become free of stress yourself.
To provide an acceptable explanation for.
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Vindicate is defined as to justify an opinion or belief.
To make less intense or prominent; reduce or tone down:
To cover with a thin layer of more costly material; esp., to cover (wood) with wood of finer quality
To cover with varnish.
To cover with or as with a veil
Screen is defined as to show, examine or separate.
To exculpate is defined as to free from guilt or blame.
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To ease physically; relieve:
condemning (antonym)
The definition of condemn is to state that someone or something is wrong or evil or to sentence to punishment.
blaming (antonym)
To accuse of being at fault; condemn (for something); censure
accusing (antonym)
The definition of accuse is to say another person is at fault for doing something wrong.
increasing (related)
Increase is defined as to become bigger or greater.
showing (related)
To bestow; to confer.
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Find another word for palliating. In this page you can discover 42 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for palliating, like: mitigating, extenuating, assuaging, alleviating, relieving, whitewashing, tempering, sugarcoating, soothing, softening and mollifying.