covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.-eased; mitigated; alleviated.-to cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.-to cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.-to reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.