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单词 assuage
释义 as·suage
\əˈswāj\ verb
\also-āzhor-äzh\
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from Old French assouagier, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin assuaviare, adsuaviare, from Latin ad- + (assumed) Vulgar Latin -suaviare (from Latin suavis sweet) — more at sweet
transitive verb
1. : to reduce the intensity of : make less severe or violent : allay, mitigate, ease
 < stroking her right wrist with her left hand as though to assuage the ache — Jean Stafford >
 < forgetting her own sorrow in her effort to assuage his — B.A.Williams >
2. : to reduce to a state of peace, calm, or quiet : mollify, pacify
 < she found herself … pleasantly assuaged by the sense of anonymity which enveloped her — Helen Howe >
3. : to put an end to by satisfying : appease, quench
 < surrounded with more than enough to assuage its hunger — F.G.Kay >
4. obsolete : to reduce especially in size : diminish
intransitive verb
archaic : to grow less : abate, subside
 < God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters assuaged — Gen 8: 1 (Authorized Version) >
Synonyms: see relieve
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