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Assuaged

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.
--Addison.

To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
--Burke.

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

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

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assuaged

vb. (en-past of: assuage)

Usage examples of "assuaged".

Anger temporarily assuaged, she dropped the black mirror back into the cushioning swaths of black silk, and carelessly dropped a fold over the top of it.

On the first news of the emperor's death, the troops expressed some suspicion and resentment, till the one was removed, and the other assuaged, by a donative of twenty pieces of gold to each soldier.

The modest behavior which might have assuaged the jealousy of a hostile government was neglected, on this occasion, by the zeal of the Christians.

The grief of Antonina could only be assuaged by the sufferings of her son.

If they were already in the fangs of the daemon, their torments could neither be aggravated nor assuaged by human industry.

The quarrel between Othman and his subjects was assuaged by the early mediation of Ali.

But the calamities of famine and disease were soon felt by the troops of Moslemah, and as the former was miserably assuaged, so the latter was dreadfully propagated, by the pernicious nutriment which hunger compelled them to extract from the most unclean or unnatural food.

Finally, thirst and hunger assuaged, Tiria snuggled deeper into her sack and went to sleep again.

Fortunately the portions served them were considerably more generous, if unexciting to the palate, than her first dinner there, so that hunger was assuaged.

The edge of her hunger assuaged, she paused long enough to chew, and her voice took on a new, softer note.

The worst of his hunger mo­mentarily assuaged, he searched for more to eat and a change of clothing.

The mind did strange things some­times, and memory wounded at least as often as it healed or assuaged.

King Ademar is surrounded by hungry, ambitious, angry men, who will need to be assuaged, and soon, however much they might fear him for the moment.

They have all the dispos­sessed of their northlands hungry to be assuaged.

Catching her breath, feeling the familiar speeding up of her pulse, Beatritz waited, and was answered, assuaged, with images in her darkness, images swirling to take shape as out of some primal fog before the world was made.