What does assuage mean?
Definitions for assuage
əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒas·suage
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Princeton's WordNet
pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntleverb
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
quench, slake, allay, assuageverb
satisfy (thirst)
"The cold water quenched his thirst"
relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuageverb
provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
Wiktionary
assuageverb
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
assuageverb
To pacify or soothe (someone).
assuageverb
To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from assouagier "appease, calm", from Vulgar Latin assuaviare, derived from Latin ad- "ad-" + suavis "sweet".
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To ASSUAGEverb
Etymology: The derivation of this word is uncertain; John Minsheu deduces it from adsuadere, or assuaviare; Franciscus Junius, from swæs, sweet; from whence Stephen Skinner imagines aswæsan might have been formed.
Refreshing winds the summer’s heats assuage,
And kindly warmth disarms the winter’s rage. Addison.Yet is his hate, his rancour ne’er the less,
Since nought assuageth malice when ’tis told. Edward Fairfax, b. iv.This was necessary for the securing the people from their fears; which were capable of being assuaged by no other means. Edward Hyde, b. viii.
Shall I, t’ assuage
Their brutal rage,
The regal stem destroy? John Dryden, Albion.To Assuageverb
To abate.
God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged. Gen. viii. 1.
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assuage
Assuage is a verb that means to make an unpleasant feeling less intense, to alleviate, to relieve, to ease, or to soothe. It can also mean to satisfy an appetite or desire.
Webster Dictionary
Assuageverb
to soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire
Assuageverb
to abate or subside
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Assuage
as-swāj′, v.t. to soften, mitigate, or allay.—v.i. to abate or subside: to diminish.—n. Assuage′ment, abatement: mitigation.—adj. Assuā′sive, softening, mild. [O. Fr., formed as if from a L. assuaviāre—ad, to, suavis, mild.]
Anagrams for assuage »
sausage
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of assuage in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of assuage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of assuage in a Sentence
Axel Acosta's family doesn't want to hear Travis Scott excuses ; Travis Scott excuses do not assuage their grief and pain.
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
I think you’re God's gift right now to black America, to the black community all across America, because we've gotten this terrible, terrible idea coming out of the 60s, that our dependency on the larger society is justice. And that what we need to be doing is protesting, and that we need Black Lives Matter, and that we need black anger and we need black identity, no, those things assuage us as we decline. What we need are traditional family values. A mother and a father — no social programs will ever substitute for that. We need that sort of common sense responsibility for our own fate — don't just keep giving us things, more and more things. Ask more from us and we need to ask more from ourselves.
People were thinking about whether the volatility represented a global recession but the stabilisation in stocks and oil prices helped assuage fears, recent economic data does not signal an imminent US recession.
Whether or not you have been vaccinated is your own private medical information, places like hospitals or your doctor generally can not share that information without your written permission. But there will likely be increasing circumstances where you might want to share your vaccine status. A small gathering of friends, for instance, might want to share vaccine statuses to assuage any anxieties people might have.
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- هدأArabic
- облекчавам, уталожвам, успокоявам, смекчавамBulgarian
- besänftigen, beschwichtigenGerman
- apaciguar, aliviar, sosegar, satisfacer, mitigar, calmarSpanish
- tyynnyttääFinnish
- soulager, assouvir, calmer, apaiserFrench
- לשכךHebrew
- csillapítHungarian
- mitigareItalian
- 安楽死Japanese
- łagodzićPolish
- mitigar, acalmarPortuguese
- alinaRomanian
- смягчать, уменьшать, успокоить, успокаиватьRussian
- заспокоєнняUkrainian
- 缓和Chinese
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