Difference between Relieve and Palliate

RELIEVE vs PALLIATE: ADJECTIVE

To make prominent or effective by contrast; set off.
To rob or deprive.
To enter the game as a relief pitcher after (another pitcher).
To release (a person) from an obligation, restriction, or burden.
To rescue from siege.
To furnish assistance or aid to.
To free from pain, anxiety, or distress.
To make less tedious, monotonous, or unpleasant.
To cause a lessening or alleviation of.
To free from a specified duty by providing or acting as a substitute.
To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver.
To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen
To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate.
To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.
To alleviate the symptoms of (a disease or disorder).
To make less severe or intense; mitigate. : relieve.
To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease without curing.

To remove, wholly or partially, as anything that depresses, weighs down, pains, oppresses, etc.; mitigate; alleviate; lessen.
To free, wholly or partly, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, trouble, encumbrance, or anything that is considered to be an evil; give ease, comfort, or consolation to; help; aid; support; succor: as, to relieve the poor and needy.
Specifically, to bring efficient help to (a besieged place); raise the siege of.
To ease of any burden, wrong, or oppression by judicial or legislative interposition, by indemnification for losses, or the like; right.
To release from a post, station, task, or duty by substituting another person or party; put another in the place of, or take the place of, in the performance of any duty, the bearing of any burden, or the like: as, to relieve a sentinel or guard.
To rise; arise.
Synonyms Mitigate. Assuage, etc. (see alleviate); diminish, lighten.
To give relief or prominence to, literally or figuratively; hence, to give contrast to; heighten the effect or interest of, by contrast or variety.
To mitigate; lessen; soften.
To lift up; set up a second time; hence, to collect; assemble.
To give assistance to; support.
(idiom) (relieve (oneself)) To urinate or defecate.

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.

Let off, Still, Free, Excuse, Exempt, Deliver, Salvage, Save, Palliate, Salve, Remedy, Allay, Assuage, Ease, Alleviate

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

Lessen, Take over, Let off, Still, Free, Excuse, Exempt, Salvage, Save, Palliate, Salve, Remedy, Allay, Assuage, Ease

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

Treatment necessary either to control or relieve symptoms.
Open all service valves and relieve system pressure.
Celestite can relieve stress, anxiety and obsessive behaviours.
Management will not even come and relieve you!
ASEAN to relieve stress and build unit cohesion.
Have you taken any medication to relieve pain?
ASAIHSr forces can relieve the Red Army troops.
ADVAIR DISKUS does not relieve sudden breathing problems.
Moreover, it will relieve some of the stress.
Use nutmeg to relieve pain, soothe indigestion, relieve insomnia, and improve brain function.

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.