Alleviate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
Example sentence: Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
Palliate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To lessen the severity of; to extenuate.To cause to seem less serious.To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.To cover by excuses and apologies.