palliate

To make less severe or intense; mitigate. synonym: relieve.

To alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or disorder).

To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.

To cover with a cloak; clothe.

To hide; conceal.

To cover or conceal; excuse or extenuate; soften or tone down by pleading or urging extenuating circumstances, or by favorable representations: as, to palliate faults or a crime.

To reduce in violence; mitigate; lessen or abate: as, to palliate a disease.

Eased; mitigated.

In zoology, having a pallium; of or pertaining to the Palliata; tectibranchiate.