assuage (verb)

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• assuage — ► VERB 1) make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. 2) satisfy (an appetite or desire). DERIVATIVES assuagement noun. ORIGIN Old French assouagier, from Latin suavis sweet …   English terms dictionary

• assuage — verb /əˈsweɪdʒ/ a) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). 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 b) To… …   Wiktionary

• assuage — I verb abate, allay, alleviate, appease, attemper, blunt, chasten, check, comfort, compose, curb, diminish, ease, lessen, levare, mitigare, mitigate, moderate, mollify, obtund, pacify, palliate, quell, quench, reduce, relieve, remedy, salve, sate …   Law dictionary

• assuage — verb Assuage is used with these nouns as the object: ↑anxiety, ↑concern, ↑conscience, ↑fear, ↑guilt, ↑worry …   Collocations dictionary

• assuage — verb (T) literary to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe; relieve (1): Nothing could assuage his guilt …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• assuage — verb 1) a pain that could never be assuaged Syn: relieve, ease, alleviate, soothe, mitigate, allay, palliate, abate, suppress, subdue; moderate, lessen, diminish, reduce See note at …   Thesaurus of popular words

• assuage — [[t]əswe͟ɪʤ[/t]] assuages, assuaging, assuaged 1) VERB If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. [LITERARY] [V n] To assuage his wife s grief, he took her on a tour of Europe... [V n] She was just …   English dictionary

• assuage — /əˈsweɪdʒ / (say uh swayj) verb (t) (assuaged, assuaging) 1. to make milder or less severe; mitigate; ease: to assuage grief. 2. to appease; satisfy: to assuage appetite; to assuage thirst; to assuage a craving. 3. to mollify; pacify: to assuage… …  

• assuage — transitive verb (assuaged; assuaging) Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from Anglo French asuager, from Vulgar Latin *assuaviare, from Latin ad + suavis sweet more at sweet Date: 14th century 1. to lessen the intensity of (something that pains… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• assuage — UK [əˈsweɪdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms assuage : present tense I/you/we/they assuage he/she/it assuages present participle assuaging past tense assuaged past participle assuaged formal to make an unpleasant or painful feeling less severe …   English dictionary

• assuage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. lessen (See relief). II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To alleviate] Syn. mitigate, lessen, soothe; see relieve 2 . 2. [To satisfy] Syn. appease, fill, surfeit; see satisfy 1 , 3 . 3. [To calm] Syn. pacify,… …   English dictionary for students