palliate
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Is palliate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To hide or disguise.obsolete
2. (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.Examples: ""Ah, dearest!" replied he, "your spirits are exhausted,—perhaps unconsciously oppressed with the idea of that future whose pain and whose peril I have rather heightened than palliated.""; "If, mindless of palliating circumstances, we are bound to regard the death of the Master-at-arms as the prisoner's deed, then does that deed constitute a capital crime whereof the penalty is a mortal one?"obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.obsolete
2. (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.Examples: "[the] most helpful method of its Cure, which yet if palliate and imperfect would onely make way to more fatal Sickness"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary