Palliate: alternatives and connections

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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To make an apology or defense.

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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To assent to as true.

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The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, th…

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The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, th…

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Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

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Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

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Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

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Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

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The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

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The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

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Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…

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To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

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To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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