to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less secure or intense
/lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
SYN - extenuate, mitigate
provide physical relief, as from pain
SYN - alleviate, assuage, relieve
"He realized that she was brought along to palliate his anger and becuase he knew this it only caused to inflamme him further."
"Instead of wanting to palliate his suffering she was rather indifferent."
"He had seen the terrible inside of him, the weakness, the cowardly, the boy and he desperately needed this music to palliate this feeling of depression."
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