assuage

[As*suage·]

If you assuage an unpleasant feeling, you make it go away. Assuaging your hunger by eating a bag of marshmallows may cause you other unpleasant feelings.

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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.

Verb
provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"

Verb
satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"

Verb
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

v. t.
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.

v. i.
To abate or subside.

Assuage

As*suage" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assuaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Assuaging .] [OE. asuagen, aswagen, OF. asoagier, asuagier, fr. assouagier, fr. L. ad + suavis sweet. See Sweet.] 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.

Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.

To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge.

Syn. -- To alleviate; mitigate; appease; soothe; calm; tranquilize; relieve. See Alleviate.

Assuage

As*suage", v. i. To abate or subside. [Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1.

The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to 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.

To abate or subside.

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Usage Examples

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

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