assuage
- to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
- to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
Origin of assuage
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satisfy, mitigate, placate, appease, quench, lessen, soften, sate, alleviate, pacify, mollify, allay, temper, tranquilize, fill, surfeit, palliate, conciliate, ease, moderateExamples from the Web for assuage
Contemporary Examples of assuage
Needless to say, scheduling major events on the Jewish High Holidays does nothing to assuage those concerns.
Paul sacrifices little with his base and can only assuage doubts among those concerned about his views on foreign policy.
Obama was not elected on the strength of crossover votes from Republicans seeking to assuage their guilt.
Sorry, Michele Bachmann. We Are Ready for a Female President. And It’s Partially Because of You.Eleanor Clift
February 21, 2014
But the GOP could assuage that tension by promulgating a hard-core, Republican version of gay and straight marriage.
Nursing helped to assuage injuries, fatigue, crankiness, and even sickness.
Historical Examples of assuage
To assuage remorse, she sought to give evidence as to a prevalent sympathy.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
For a long while he was preoccupied by an intense desire to assuage it.
A Spirit in PrisonRobert Hichens
Thus I assuage my conscience and justify the fun, the joy, the excitement, and the violence.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
It was Roger's first experience in trying to assuage the grief of any one else.
The Forbidden TrailHonor Willsie
assuage
- to soothe, moderate, or relieve (grief, pain, etc)
- to give relief to (thirst, appetite, etc); satisfy
- to pacify; calm
Word Origin for assuage
Word Origin and History for assuage
c.1300, from Anglo-French assuager, Old French assoagier "soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify," from Vulgar Latin *adsuaviare, from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + suavis "sweet, agreeable" (see sweet). For sound development in French, cf. deluge from Latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. Related: Assuaged; assuaging.