assuages
- present tense form of assuage (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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What she notices about pizza is that pizza “is like a smiling face: It assuages the fear of complexity by showing everything on its surface.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
A sort of penance, where by reading all the nasty comments under every post she assuages some of her guilt, as a zealot whips himself bloody to atone for sin?
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2024
Having Castillo atop the rotation certainly assuages many of those feelings.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023
It assuages the fear and tension that’s been tormenting Wood throughout the film because here she is believed, and she’s not alone.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2022
The acquisition of this power of intellectual sympathy is a common accompaniment of a large and cultivated mind, and wherever it exists, it assuages the rancour of controversy.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
