Verb: palliate 'pa-lee,eyt
- Provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will palliate your headaches";
- relieve, alleviate, assuage
- (law) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
"The circumstances palliate the crime";
- extenuate, mitigate
Derived forms: palliating, palliates, palliated
Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, excuse, improve, meliorate, mend, rationalise [Brit], rationalize