palliate

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

verb

1. provide physical relief, as from pain
- This pill will relieve your headaches
• Syn:
relieve, alleviate, assuage
• Derivationally related forms:
assuagement (for: assuage), palliative, palliation, alleviatory (for: alleviate), alleviative (for: alleviate), alleviation (for: alleviate), alleviator (for: alleviate), alleviant (for: alleviate)
• Hypernyms:
better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
• Hyponyms:
soothe, comfort, ease
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
- The circumstances extenuate the crime
• Syn:
extenuate, mitigate
• Derivationally related forms:
mitigative (for: mitigate), mitigatory (for: mitigate), mitigation (for: mitigate), palliation, extenuation (for: extenuate)
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  relieve, alleviate, assuage, extenuate, mitigate