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assuage
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Word definitions for assuage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). 2 (context transitive English) To pacify or soothe (someone). 3 (context intransitive obsolete English) To calm down, become less violent ...
Usage examples of assuage.
He drew in his breath, then saw the defiance in her green eyes and lashed out in anger to assuage his guilt.
Colonel Cathcart was helpless to assess exactly how much ground he had gained or lost with his goddam skeet-shooting range and wished that Colonel Korn were in his office right then to evaluate the entire episode for him still one more time and assuage his fears.
All the pain it had taken years to assuage roared back, leaving her reeling.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
I will allow you to inject chemical or toxic substances into the atmosphere if that will assuage your doubts, General Chagalla.
I have longings too, and am as able to assuage your needs as Faisal--also I have the advantage of being here, while he is many miles away.
They behave like life mates, though they display no sexual characteristics -- but like all the others, they refuse to have physical contact with me, so I cannot assuage my curiosity.
Richard once again considered fucking her, simply to assuage the pain in his shaft, but decided against it.
And she had coolly refused to allow him to assuage so much as a twinge of his guilt.
At the time, she had believed he pursued her merely to assuage some affront to his pride.
This time, he could not assuage his guilt by telling himself he was trying to marry her for her own good, and because she had no better option.
Francesca adored her for it, for trying, but she suspected the only thing that would assuage her pain was time.
Naked, they sat on the unused bed and fed one another until one kind of hunger was temporarily satisfied and they reached once again to assuage the other.
To think how sure he had been the old priest could assuage his nightmares.