Palliate

1. Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
3. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
4. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
5. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.