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Definition of assuage in English: assuageverb əˈsweɪdʒəˈsweɪdʒ [with object]1Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. the letter assuaged the fears of most members Example sentencesExamples - I expect this was a conscious tactic for assuaging a common anxiety, and it did make it easier to ignore that difference between us.
- I am having trouble structuring an argument which assuages my children's disappointment on this one.
- Trying to assuage the ruffled feelings of the masses by conducting such events in situations of necessity may be fine.
- As part of the shift to unadorned capitalist relations, efforts appear to be underway to revive various forms of religion to help assuage social discontent.
- However, my task is to pursue the best interests of the child and not assuage parental feelings.
- To an extent, helping others assuaged the pain each woman felt.
- Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures.
- The subsequent amendments were being proposed to assuage the feelings of industry.
- It helps exonerate us, assuages our panic and provides a focus for our disdain and hate.
- Perhaps, he is seeking revenge, or perhaps, he is simply looking to assuage the pain.
- It seems as though dance helped to assuage the feelings of loss associated with leaving Ireland.
- It merely earned him some much-needed Brownie points and assuaged the general grief and shock of a nation, understandably numbed by the slaughter of innocent children.
- Looking at my field guide did not assuage my fears.
- Nothing would assuage the pain of her deprivation.
- Far from assuaging popular anxieties provoked by the earlier cases, each successive public confession or apology by a senior medical figure has the effect of widening and deepening morbid suspicions.
- Anyway, I'll assuage my frustration by posting my comment here.
- For some reason it's comforting to be able to really dislike him; it assuages the guilty feelings our envy produces.
- This is because one of the purposes of the criminal law is to assuage the feelings of the victims and their friends and relations.
- But recent happenings assuaged most feelings of guilt.
- Such videos are very popular as they help assuage the guilt feelings of parents over their failure to control the TV in the first place.
Synonyms relieve, ease, alleviate, soothe, mitigate, dampen, allay, calm, palliate, abate, lull, temper, suppress, smother, stifle, subdue, tranquillize, mollify, moderate, modify, tone down, attenuate, dilute, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, lower put an end to, put a stop to, take the edge off informal kill rare lenify - 1.1 Satisfy (an appetite or desire)
an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge Example sentencesExamples - But the second desire was not so easily assuaged.
- How else is he supposed to assuage England's desperate hunger for success if he cannot even get players together for a few days?
- Our hunger was rapidly assuaged, and by the time we pushed our plates away, we were both full.
- Yes, and he assuaged whatever thirst he had with, I suppose, the soft drink or the orange juice.
- For him, people existed only for one purpose: to assuage his unquenchable thirst for self-validation and control.
- And in addressing that, the hunger is assuaged.
- He speedily succors us with the aid of consolation, assuages the rising pangs of temptations, and calms with inward peace the emotions of the thoughts which rise up against Him.
- Hunger was easily assuaged by chips, but after a while, I developed a taste for more illicit pleasures.
- I have always devoted a great deal of energy to assuaging their curiosity and I'm a firm believer in leading them to understanding through a process of question and answer.
- The point is, hunger and the desire to assuage it had little, if anything, to do with honoring or dishonoring God on the Sabbath.
- And that is a hunger that can probably never be assuaged.
- They may have over-eaten, in their desperation to assuage their hunger, or drunk themselves silly.
- With my hunger assuaged, the afternoon is a heavy time. I turn up the volume on the radio, walk around the store, try to keep myself awake.
- The meal would have been stolen immediately had not the dogs' hunger been assuaged.
- Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
- A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures.
- Once the most serious hunger pangs were assuaged, Nicholas remembered his manners and his curiosity.
- English readers in Israel do not seem to need speakers for their cause, and prefer their country of origin when it comes to literature, assuaging their cultural hunger with imported books.
- What poor hosts we have become if we do not offer to assuage her hunger, for surely she must be famished by now.
- I myself incline to the minority view that science alone cannot assuage our craving for human contact.
Synonyms satisfy, fulfil, gratify, appease, indulge, relieve, slake, sate, satiate, quench, quell, overcome, check, keep in check, dull, blunt, allay, take the edge off, diminish
Derivatives noun When we fall in love we imagine we have found an ultimate assuagement of loneliness. Example sentencesExamples - But thank you for acknowledging that the principle accomplishment of carbon credits is the assuagement of guilt.
- Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain.
- It is said that they are in flight from an insupportable nervous strain, from which they find temporary assuagement only in sleep.
- As time went on she grew more and more jealous of him, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity.
Origin Middle English: from Old French assouagier, asouagier, based on Latin ad- 'to' (expressing change) + suavis 'sweet'. Rhymes age, backstage, cage, downstage, engage, enrage, gage, gauge, mage, multistage, offstage, onstage, Osage, page, Paige, rage, rampage, sage, stage, swage, under-age, upstage, wage Definition of assuage in US English: assuageverbəˈsweɪdʒəˈswāj [with object]1Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. the letter assuaged the fears of most members Example sentencesExamples - It seems as though dance helped to assuage the feelings of loss associated with leaving Ireland.
- Anyway, I'll assuage my frustration by posting my comment here.
- To an extent, helping others assuaged the pain each woman felt.
- Such videos are very popular as they help assuage the guilt feelings of parents over their failure to control the TV in the first place.
- For some reason it's comforting to be able to really dislike him; it assuages the guilty feelings our envy produces.
- Trying to assuage the ruffled feelings of the masses by conducting such events in situations of necessity may be fine.
- As part of the shift to unadorned capitalist relations, efforts appear to be underway to revive various forms of religion to help assuage social discontent.
- It merely earned him some much-needed Brownie points and assuaged the general grief and shock of a nation, understandably numbed by the slaughter of innocent children.
- It helps exonerate us, assuages our panic and provides a focus for our disdain and hate.
- Far from assuaging popular anxieties provoked by the earlier cases, each successive public confession or apology by a senior medical figure has the effect of widening and deepening morbid suspicions.
- I expect this was a conscious tactic for assuaging a common anxiety, and it did make it easier to ignore that difference between us.
- The subsequent amendments were being proposed to assuage the feelings of industry.
- Looking at my field guide did not assuage my fears.
- Perhaps, he is seeking revenge, or perhaps, he is simply looking to assuage the pain.
- This is because one of the purposes of the criminal law is to assuage the feelings of the victims and their friends and relations.
- Nothing would assuage the pain of her deprivation.
- But recent happenings assuaged most feelings of guilt.
- Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures.
- However, my task is to pursue the best interests of the child and not assuage parental feelings.
- I am having trouble structuring an argument which assuages my children's disappointment on this one.
Synonyms relieve, ease, alleviate, soothe, mitigate, dampen, allay, calm, palliate, abate, lull, temper, suppress, smother, stifle, subdue, tranquillize, mollify, moderate, modify, tone down, attenuate, dilute, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, lower - 1.1 Satisfy (an appetite or desire)
an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge Example sentencesExamples - Once the most serious hunger pangs were assuaged, Nicholas remembered his manners and his curiosity.
- How else is he supposed to assuage England's desperate hunger for success if he cannot even get players together for a few days?
- But the second desire was not so easily assuaged.
- What poor hosts we have become if we do not offer to assuage her hunger, for surely she must be famished by now.
- He speedily succors us with the aid of consolation, assuages the rising pangs of temptations, and calms with inward peace the emotions of the thoughts which rise up against Him.
- And that is a hunger that can probably never be assuaged.
- The point is, hunger and the desire to assuage it had little, if anything, to do with honoring or dishonoring God on the Sabbath.
- For him, people existed only for one purpose: to assuage his unquenchable thirst for self-validation and control.
- I myself incline to the minority view that science alone cannot assuage our craving for human contact.
- The meal would have been stolen immediately had not the dogs' hunger been assuaged.
- Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
- A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures.
- Hunger was easily assuaged by chips, but after a while, I developed a taste for more illicit pleasures.
- Yes, and he assuaged whatever thirst he had with, I suppose, the soft drink or the orange juice.
- With my hunger assuaged, the afternoon is a heavy time. I turn up the volume on the radio, walk around the store, try to keep myself awake.
- I have always devoted a great deal of energy to assuaging their curiosity and I'm a firm believer in leading them to understanding through a process of question and answer.
- English readers in Israel do not seem to need speakers for their cause, and prefer their country of origin when it comes to literature, assuaging their cultural hunger with imported books.
- Our hunger was rapidly assuaged, and by the time we pushed our plates away, we were both full.
- They may have over-eaten, in their desperation to assuage their hunger, or drunk themselves silly.
- And in addressing that, the hunger is assuaged.
Synonyms satisfy, fulfil, gratify, appease, indulge, relieve, slake, sate, satiate, quench, quell, overcome, check, keep in check, dull, blunt, allay, take the edge off, diminish
Origin Middle English: from Old French assouagier, asouagier, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ (expressing change) + suavis ‘sweet’. |