Assuage

Quick meaning: Assuage is a verb meaning (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).

Meaning

(transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Example Sentences

Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.

to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

the fount at which the panting mind assuages her thirst of knowledge

1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston 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.

Word Forms

• assuages
• assuaging
• assuaged
• asswage

Synonyms for assuage

Depending on context, synonyms include alleviate, placate, conciliate, palliate, appease, allay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lenify, alleviate, allay, relieve, palliate, appease.

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