asswage

American  

[uh-swayj, uh-swayzh] / əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ /

verb

1. an obsolete variant of assuage.

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Etymology

Origin of asswage

First recorded in 1530–40

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Example Sentences

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asswage

For one that's basted to feel pain, Because the pangs his bones endure Contribute nothing to the cure: Yet honor hurt, is wont to rage 215 With pain no med'cine can asswage.

From Hudibras by Samuel Butler

This last I have known to asswage Thirst in a Fever, beyond any other Liquor.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

But God remembered him, and also the beasts, and every living thing that was with him, and began to put an end to these mighty afflictions, by causing the waters to asswage.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

I wish that this swell'd Belly may asswage happily.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

The good Gods asswage thy wrath, and turne the dregs of it, vpon this Varlet heere: This, who like a blocke hath denyed my accesse to thee Corio.

From Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

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