1. Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
   - extenuate, mitigate 
2. Provide physical relief, as from pain
   - relieve, alleviate, assuage

Derived forms: palliated, palliates, palliating

See also: palliation, palliative

Type of: ameliorate, amend, apologise [Brit], apologize, better, excuse, improve, justify, meliorate, rationalise [Brit], rationalize

• disuse
• disused
• disyllabic
• disyllable
• dit
• dita
• dita bark
• ditch
• ditch digger
• ditch fern
• ditch reed
• ditch spade
• ditcher
• ditchmoss
• ditheism
• dither
• dithered color
• dithered colour
• ditherer
• dithering
• dithery
• dithyramb
• dithyrambic
• ditransitive
• ditsy