palliate

For others, the choice instead is to palliate reality through alcohol or other assorted fixes.

A lawyer would try to defend, or palliate, my act from the standpoint of the law.

This was a political fault, which no circumstances can palliate.

Pulsatilla is the proper medicine to palliate and regulate the symptoms.

Later in the case, though Nux may palliate, it will not cure.

To palliate on such grounds is to believe in the irresponsibility of motives, which should transcend times and occasions.