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assuage

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
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/əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/ · /əˈswɑʒ/(US)

Definition of assuage

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

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

  1. (transitive)To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
    “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.”
  2. (transitive)To pacify or soothe (someone).
  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

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Etymology

From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuāviō (“to sweeten, to butter up, to calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (“sweet”) + -iō.

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