1. (v.t.)assuage to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief.
2. assuage to appease; satisfy; allay: to assuage one's hunger.
3. assuage to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage one's fears.
Etymology: (1250–1300; < OF asouagier < VL *assuāviāre < L as-as-+-suāviāre <suāvissuave)
Definition of 'assuage'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
2. (verb)quench, slake, allay, assuage satisfy (thirst) "The cold water quenched his thirst"
3. (verb)relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage provide physical relief, as from pain "This pill will relieve your headaches"
Definition of 'assuage'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)assuage 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
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