palliate
облегчать; временно облегчать; смягчать; покрывать; извинять

Many village priests insisted on living in luxury, dressing in the best garb, jerkin and multi-coloured hose, and making every effort to palliate the hardships of their lives.
It is possible to palliate without cure.
The same constitutional medicine can be used for both palliative and curative purposes simultaneously, because deep acting remedies can be repeated frequently, without risk of aggravation, if correctly selected they may not only palliate but also cure the patient, even in apparently hopeless cases, because of the gentleness of the fifty millesimal scale.
These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists, between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment, to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder.
The ladies in the billiard room kept a small fire of smashed furniture smouldering by the window and occasionally burned camphor in an attempt to palliate this tormenting odour.