assuage
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (obsolete) asswage
Etymology[edit]
Middle English aswagen, from Old French assouagier "appease, calm", from Vulgar Latin assuaviare, derived from Latin ad- "ad-" + suavis "sweet".
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
assuage (third-person singular simple present assuages, present participle assuaging, simple past and past participle assuaged)
- (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
- 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
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
mitigate, relieve
pacify
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- Japanese: 和らげる(やわらげる, yawarageru)
- Kurdish: arimandin (ku), hedirandin (ku), hêwirandin (ku), aram kirin (ku), tebitandin (ku)
- Portuguese: acalmar
References[edit]
- assuage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- assuage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913