To "palliate" (PAL-ee-ate) – from the Latin for "to conceal" – is to lessen in severity or make less intense.
Example (as used by Steven Polansky in Harper’s Magazine): "I had held a hope that she would take my class, that I would have the chance not only to cope with but to help palliate her pain."
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