assuaged

American  

[uh-sweyjd, uh-sweyzhd] / əˈsweɪdʒd, əˈsweɪʒd /

adjective

1. made milder or less severe; eased.

   She thought with assuaged grief of her father's tragic death, and how he would have loved to see her now, about to be married.

2. (of hunger, thirst, etc.) satisfied or relieved.

   That’s how it is with desire—it flares up again once the briefly assuaged appetite returns.

3. soothed, calmed, or mollified.

   Volunteering at the clinic gives me an opportunity for social interaction as well as an assuaged conscience because I’m helping out with an important issue.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of assuage.

Other Word Forms

• unassuaged
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of assuaged

assuage ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

With gentle words of pity she Assuaged her wild despair, E'en as a tender hand might free A curlew from the snare.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

With soothing words the giant chief Assuaged the fury of her grief.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)