Difference between Assuage and Palliate

ASSUAGE vs PALLIATE: ADJECTIVE

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Provide physical relief, as from pain
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
To pacify or soothe (someone).
(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Satisfy (thirst)

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
To appease or calm.
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: : relieve.

To make less severe or intense; mitigate. : relieve.
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 alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or disorder).

To soften, in a figurative sense; allay; mitigate, ease, or lessen, as pain or grief; moderate; appease or pacify, as passion or tumult.
To abate or subside; grow less: as, “let thin hert assuage,” Gower; “the waters asswaged,”
Gain the good will of
Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, etc. (see alleviate); to appease, mollify, temper (see lists under alleviate and allay).

To cover with a cloak; clothe.
To hide; conceal.
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 reduce in violence; mitigate; lessen or abate: as, to palliate a disease.
Eased; mitigated.
In zoology, having a pallium; of or pertaining to the Palliata; tectibranchiate.

Soothe, Gruntle, Lenify, Gentle, Conciliate, Palliate, Slake, Quench, Relieve, Alleviate, Pacify, Appease, Mollify, Placate, Allay

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

Satisfy, Quell, Dispel, Soothe, Lenify, Gentle, Conciliate, Palliate, Quench, Relieve, Pacify, Appease, Mollify, Placate, Allay

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

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.

When is a negative outcome sufficient to assuage patient concerns about cognitive dysfunction?
How did Xavier and Magneto try to assuage her fears?
How many answers are there to the assuage crossword puzzle?
What did Augustine finally do to assuage his grief?