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palliatingverbpresent participle of palliate to make (something) seem less bad by offering excusesdon't try to palliate your constant lying by claiming that everybody lies deodorizing, excusing, explaining away, extenuating, glossing (over), glozing (over), whitewashing sugarcoating, varnishingapologizing, atoning, confessingaccounting (for), explaining, justifying, rationalizingminimizing, playing down, soft-pedalingalleviating, easing, lessening, lightening, mitigating, moderating, softening, temperingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating to make more bearable or less severethis medicine should palliate your cough at least a little allaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, helping, mitigating, mollifying, relieving, soothing abating, lightening, moderating, softening, temperingcuring, healing, remedyingamending, correcting, emending, fixing, mending, rectifying, reforming, repairingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining aggravating, exacerbating harming, hurting, impairing, injuringheightening, intensifying, sharpening |