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assuage
UK /əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/ US /əˈswɑʒ/
verb 3
Collocations
3ADJ.
fruitless, revealing
VERB + ASSUAGE
attempt, heat
ASSUAGE + NOUN
conscience, grief, pain, soap, sorrows
Definitions
verb
1
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
2
To pacify or soothe (someone).
3
To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
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Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.
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to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
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the fount at which the panting mind assuages her thirst of knowledge
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It would never occur to Tom to keep a confidence if he thought that revealing it might assuage his soap bubble of an ego.
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This medicine will assuage the pain.
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The German word “Kummerspeck” describes the weight one might gain from eating in a fruitless attempt to assuage grief, stress or exhaustion.
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