asswage

American  

[uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh] / əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ /

verb

1. an obsolete variant of assuage.

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Etymology

Origin of asswage

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

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asswage

Thoughts my Tormenters arm'd with deadly stings Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts, Exasperate, exulcerate, and raise Dire inflammation which no cooling herb Or medcinal liquor can asswage, Nor breath of Vernal Air from snowy Alp.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

There the fair Flocks allay the Summer's Rage, And panting Savages their Flame asswage.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson

Sir 18:16 Shall not the dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than a gift.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

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

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