English-Thai Dictionary

palliate

VT ทำให้ บรรเทา  ทำให้ ลดน้อยลง  ผ่อนคลาย  alleviate vindicate justify tam-hai-ban-tao

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PALLIATE

v.t.[Low L. pallio, from pallium, a cloke or robe. ] 1. To clothe.
2. To cover with excuse; to conceal the enormity of offenses by excuses and apologies; hence, to extenuate; to lessen; to soften by favorable representations; as, to palliate faults, offenses, crimes or vices.
3. To reduce in violence; to mitigate; to lessen or abate; as, to palliate a disease.

 

PALLIATE

a.Eased; mitigated. [Not used. ]

 

PALLIATED

pp. Covered by excuses; extenuated; softened.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PALLIATE

Pal "li *ate, a. Etym: [L. palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See Pall the garment. ]

 

1. Covered with a mant [Obs. ] Bp. Hall.

 

2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. [Obs. ] Bp. Fell.

 

PALLIATE

Pal "li *ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palliated (); p. pr. & vb. n.Palliating ().]

 

1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs. ] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

 

2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

 

3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.

 

Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. -- To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. "To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part. " Trench.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

palliate

pal li ate |ˈpalēˌāt ˈpæliˌeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (a disease or its symptoms ) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause: treatment works by palliating symptoms. • allay or moderate (fears or suspicions ): this eliminated, or at least palliated, suspicions aroused by German unity. • disguise the seriousness or gravity of (an offense ): there is no way to excuse or palliate his dirty deed. DERIVATIVES pal li a tion |ˌpalēˈāSHən |noun, pal li a tor |-ˌātər |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin palliat- ‘cloaked, ’ from the verb palliare, from pallium ‘cloak. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

palliate

palliate |ˈpalɪeɪt | ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] make (a disease or its symptoms ) less severe without removing the cause. 2 disguise the seriousness of (an offence ): there is no way to excuse or palliate his dirty deed. • allay or moderate (fears or suspicions ). DERIVATIVES palliation |-ˈeɪʃ (ə )n |noun, palliator noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin palliat- ‘cloaked ’, from the verb palliare, from pallium ‘cloak ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

palliate

palliate verb 1 the treatment works by palliating symptoms: alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe, take the edge off, assuage, moderate, temper, diminish, decrease, blunt, deaden. 2 there is no way to palliate his dirty deed: disguise, hide, gloss over, conceal, cover (up ), camouflage, mask; excuse, justify, extenuate, mitigate.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

palliate

palliate verb 1 the treatment works by palliating symptoms: alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe, take the edge off, assuage, allay, dull, soften, lessen, moderate, temper, mitigate, diminish, decrease, blunt, deaden, abate; rare lenify. 2 if only there were some way to palliate his dirty deed: disguise, hide, gloss over, conceal, whitewash, cover, cover up, camouflage, cloak, mask, paper over, varnish over; excuse, justify, extenuate, minimize, mitigate, make light of, tone down, play down, downplay.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

palliate

pal li ate /pǽlièɪt /動詞 他動詞 1 〈病気 苦痛 〉を一時的に和らげる, 軽減する .2 〈罪 過失 〉を言い繕う, 弁解する .p à l li á tion 名詞