Palliate

Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.

To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.