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assuage
/əˈswɑʒ/
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What does assuage mean?
verb
- To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
- To pacify or soothe (someone).
More meanings (1)
verb
- (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
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IPA pronunciation
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“Marshal,” said I, with a laugh, “what use are the guns of Strelsau, if they can’t assuage a little suspicion?”
I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.
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But, good neighbors, kind friends, I desire that you will not increase, by talk, a disappointment which you cannot assuage.
For a moment Rowland expected to hear that the signora’s trouble was of a nature that a loan of five thousand francs would assuage.
Those people were not drinking that fearful stuff to assuage thirst, but in order to purify their souls and the interior of their bodies.