Definitions for assuage
əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒas·suage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. 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"

2. quench, slake, allay, assuageverb

   satisfy (thirst)

   "The cold water quenched his thirst"

3. relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuageverb

   provide physical relief, as from pain

   "This pill will relieve your headaches"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. assuageverb

   To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).

2. assuageverb

   To pacify or soothe (someone).

3. assuageverb

   To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

4. Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from assouagier "appease, calm", from Vulgar Latin assuaviare, derived from Latin ad- "ad-" + suavis "sweet".

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

   1. To mitigate; to soften; to allay.

   Refreshing winds the summer’s heats assuage,
   And kindly warmth disarms the winter’s rage. Addison.

   2. To appease; to pacify.

   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.

   3. To ease; as, the medecine assuages pain.

2. To Assuageverb

   To abate.

   God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged. Gen. viii. 1.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. 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

2. Assuageverb

   to abate or subside

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. 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.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Assuage

   緩和する， やわらげる in Japanese.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on June 17, 2019  

Matched Categories

1. • Calm
   • Satisfy

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of assuage in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of assuage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of assuage in a Sentence

1. Shelby Steele:

   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.

2. Lyster:

   For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

3. Laolu Akande:

   The implementation of a three-pronged financial intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari to assuage workers plight and support the states is now in progress.

4. Tony Buzbee:

   Axel Acosta's family doesn't want to hear Travis Scott excuses ; Travis Scott excuses do not assuage their grief and pain.

5. Jeffrey MacDonald:

   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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=assuage
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Assuage
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=assuage
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assuage
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=assuage