Assuage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve.
  • v. To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
  • v. To pacify or calm: assuage their chronic insecurity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  • v. To pacify or soothe (someone).
  • v. (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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-intransitive. To abate or subside.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To soften, in a figurative sense; allay; mitigate, ease, or lessen, as pain or grief; moderate; appease or pacify, as passion or tumult.
  • Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, etc. (see alleviate); to appease, mollify, temper (see lists under alleviate and allay).
  • To abate or subside; grow less: as, “let thin hert assuage,” Gower; “the waters asswaged,”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. satisfy (thirst)
  • v. provide physical relief, as from pain
  • v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
  • Verb Form
    assuaged    assuages    assuaging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    satisfy    fill    fulfill    meet    fulfil    calm    tranquillise    calm down    quieten    lull   
    Form
    assuager    assuagement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    calm    relieve    appease    mitigate    soothe    alleviate    tranquilize    satisfy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Age    Cage    Gage    Osage    Page    Paige    age    backstage    cage    disengage