1. 動詞
   palliate第三者單數現在式:
   及物動詞:
   緩解...(艱難的情況、痛苦、疾病等)
   緩和...(激烈的情勢等)
   減輕...(事)的負面影響
   掩飾...(過錯等)
   辯解...(過錯等)
   

   同義字詞
   excuse,explain away,extenuate,gloss (over),gloze (over),whitewash
   allay,alleviate,assuage,ease,help,mitigate,mollify,relieve,soothe
   

例句

1. Medical treatment does not treat the disease; it only palliates the symptoms.
2. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later-on, even though it palliates present symptoms.
3. He neither palliates nor aggravates our case, but calmly tells us the worst; showing us what we are, before calling us to be what He has purposed to make us.
4. Oral magnesium supplementation is totally atoxic, since it palliates magnesium deficiencies by simply normalizing the magnesium intake. (J Durlach, et al, Magnes Res, 7, 3/4, 1994)
5. For, however the good monk palliates his maxims, those which I am about to lay before you really go to sanction corrupt judges, usurers, bankrupts, thieves, prostitutes and sorcerers–all of whom are most liberally absolved from the obligation of restoring their ill-gotten gains.