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

To the End that by fit Applications he may asswage those Pains which he is oblig'd to cause his Patients to endure.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

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

Here began The wronged maids ingenious rage, Which his heart venome must asswage.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

Insomuch, that at length, through his ouer great magnificence and power he procured to himselfe great enuy among the nobility, which he could not asswage during the rest of his life.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

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