Difference between Alleviate and Palliate

ALLEVIATE vs PALLIATE: ADJECTIVE

To make (pain, for example) less intense or more bearable: : relieve.
To lessen or reduce.
To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; ; -- opposed to aggravate.
To extenuate; to palliate.

To make less severe or intense; mitigate. : relieve.
To alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or disorder).
To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.
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.
To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing.

To make light, in a figurative sense; remove in part; lessen, mitigate, or make easier to be endured: as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, punishment, burdens, etc.: opposed to aggravate.
To represent as less; lessen the magnitude or heinousness of; extenuate: applied to moral conduct: as, to alleviate an offense.
Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay, diminish, soften, abate, qualify, reduce. See allay. Where these words are applied to pain, etc., alleviate is to lighten somewhat, and especially in a soothing way; relieve and allay go further than alleviate, removing in large measure or altogether. Mitigate is to make mild, less severe; perhaps it stands midway between alleviate and relieve. Assuage is to calm down, and that idea underlies all its uses; allay conveys similarly the idea of putting to rest.

In zoology, having a pallium; of or pertaining to the Palliata; tectibranchiate.
Eased; mitigated.
To reduce in violence; mitigate; lessen or abate: as, to palliate a disease.
To cover or conceal; excuse or extenuate; soften or tone down by pleading or urging extenuating circumstances, or by favorable representations: as, to palliate faults or a crime.
To hide; conceal.
To cover with a cloak; clothe.

Remedy, Solve, Counteract, Reduce, Minimize, Relieving, Allay, Mitigate, Lessen, Ameliorate, Facilitate, Palliate, Assuage, Ease, Relieve

Cure, Prettify, Rationalize, Attenuate, Counteract, Placate, Temporize, Expiate, Sooth, Ameliorate, Extenuate, Mitigate, Assuage, Relieve, Alleviate

Remedy, Solve, Counteract, Reduce, Minimize, Relieving, Allay, Mitigate, Lessen, Ameliorate, Facilitate, Palliate, Assuage, Ease, Relieve

Extirpate, Cure, Prettify, Rationalize, Attenuate, Counteract, Placate, Temporize, Expiate, Sooth, Ameliorate, Extenuate, Mitigate, Assuage, Relieve

RIGHT NOW to alleviate the plastics pollution problem?
Being prepared helped alleviate some of my anxiety.
Disenrollment will eliminate or materially alleviate the condition.
What happens when the situation is alleviate it.
Some academic centers are merging to alleviate problems.
They adopt different strategies to alleviate filter degeneracy.
They alleviate drug resistance and improve therapeutic efficacy.
Yet, treatment can alleviate symptoms in most cases.
It is good to help alleviate suffering, that is, to help alleviate effects.
For example, your cat helps alleviate your insomnia, while your dog helps alleviate your anxiety and stress.

The procedure was the first to palliate what had been a fatal condition.
Although I palliate I revolutionize what whippet's point is.
Although effective in tumor control, radiation treatment does not palliate pain associated with mechanical instability.
This, however, his warmest friends seem not to have found; they, therefore, shift and palliate.
Public buildings were further requisitioned and outfitted to palliate the lack of accommodation.
These considerations palliate the evil, but do not convert it into good.
Oxygen may be used to palliate breathlessness not relieved by other therapies.
It will palliate while the disease slowly grows more serious over time.
Individual acts can palliate but cannot end, these problems.
The paradigm of modern medicine is to palliate.