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Cloak vs Palliate - What's the difference?

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Cloak is a synonym of palliate.


As verbs the difference between cloak and palliate

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while palliate is to relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

As a noun cloak

is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

As an adjective palliate is

(obsolete) cloaked; hidden, concealed.

cloak

English

(wikipedia cloak)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
    • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

    • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
    • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device

    palliate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
    • (Bishop Fell)

    Verb

    (palliat)
  • To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
  • * 2009 , Boris Johnson, The Evening Standard , 15 Jan 09:
    • And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.
  • (obsolete) To hide or disguise.
  • To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
  • (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
  • To placate or mollify.
  • * 2007 , "Looking towards a Brown future", The Guardian , 25 Jan 07:
    • Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).

    Related terms

    * palliation * palliative * pallium

    References

    * Paternoster, Lewis M. and Frager-Stone, Ruth. Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth. Second Edition. Amsco School Publications: USA. 1998. ----