| 单词 | assuage |
| 释义 | assuage (əsweɪdʒ ) Word forms: assuages , assuaging , assuaged 1. verb If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. [literary] The announcement appeared designed to assuage concerns at home and abroad. [VERB noun] She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother. [VERB noun] Synonyms: relieve, ease, calm, moderate 2. verb If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. [literary] The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. [VERB noun] Synonyms: calm, still, quiet, relax Collocations: assuage concern About 3,000 tickets for today's play have been sold in the past week, assuaging concerns that the ground would be no more than half-full. Times, Sunday Times A pledge to limit himself to four years in office might go some way to assuaging concerns about his age. Times, Sunday Times That will help to assuage concerns that advertisers are tightening belts as consumer confidence plummets. Times, Sunday Times Will this spark more switching and assuage concerns about current account competition? Times, Sunday Times The company tried to assuage concerns over the merger by saying that it would stop its interstate service. Times, Sunday Times The pattern of eating to assuage fear and anxiety was established for life. Times, Sunday Times Letters bore the burdens not just of keeping in touch and expressing affection but also of assuaging fear about loved ones’ well-being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Scary stories can transport us back to childhood, before our terrors over monsters in the shadows were replaced by less easily assuaged fears about financial insecurity, politics or health. The Times Literary Supplement Not the ideal way to assuage fears of a cover-up. Times, Sunday Times |
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