Palliate

(a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

(a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

(v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

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

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

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• She left no letter behind her to palliate her guilt; all I knew was that she had gone with some gentleman who had called for her in a brougham. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I acknowledge I have wronged you deeply, and cannot palliate my conduct, but I can and will make reparation. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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