Assuage
11assuage — [[t]əswe͟ɪʤ[/t]] assuages, assuaging, assuaged 1) VERB If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. [LITERARY] [V n] To assuage his wife s grief, he took her on a tour of Europe... [V n] She was just …
12assuage — as•suage [[t]əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ[/t]] v. t. suaged, suag•ing 1) to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one s grief[/ex] 2) to appease; satisfy; allay: to assuage one s hunger[/ex] 3) to soothe, calm, or mollify: to… …
13assuage — transitive verb (assuaged; assuaging) Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from Anglo French asuager, from Vulgar Latin *assuaviare, from Latin ad + suavis sweet more at sweet Date: 14th century 1. to lessen the intensity of (something that pains… …
14assuage — UK [əˈsweɪdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms assuage : present tense I/you/we/they assuage he/she/it assuages present participle assuaging past tense assuaged past participle assuaged formal to make an unpleasant or painful feeling less severe …
15assuage — verb /əˈsweɪdʒ/ a) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost b) To… …
16assuage — verb Assuage is used with these nouns as the object: ↑anxiety, ↑concern, ↑conscience, ↑fear, ↑guilt, ↑worry …
17assuage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. lessen (See relief). II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To alleviate] Syn. mitigate, lessen, soothe; see relieve 2 . 2. [To satisfy] Syn. appease, fill, surfeit; see satisfy 1 , 3 . 3. [To calm] Syn. pacify,… …
18assuage — as|suage [əˈsweıdʒ] v [T] literary [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: assouagier, from Vulgar Latin assuaviare, from Latin ad to + suavis sweet ] to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe = ↑relieve ▪ Nothing could assuage his… …
19assuage — verb (T) literary to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe; relieve (1): Nothing could assuage his guilt …
20assuage — Synonyms and related words: abate, adjust to, allay, alleviate, alter, anesthetize, appease, attemper, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, box in, chasten, circumscribe, condition, constrain, control, cushion, damp, dampen, de emphasize, deaden, deaden …
