To excuse or cause to appear less wrong. 掩饰；减轻罪过。 They have endeavored to heighten the advantages, or palliate the evils of those forms. 他们极力彰显那些制度的优点，或掩饰其缺失。 To lessen or abate the severity or painfulness of. 减轻痛苦。 The medicine palliated his pain. 药物减轻了他的痛苦。 soften, mitigate, extenuate. |