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单词 assuage
释义 assuage
 —assuagement,  n.   —assuager,  n.  
 /euh swayj", euh swayzh"/, v.t., assuaged, assuaging.
  1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
  3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
 [1250-1300; ME aswagen < OF asouagier < VL *assuaviare, equiv. to L as- AS- + -suaviare, v. deriv. of L suavis agreeable to the taste, pleasant (cf. SUAVE; akin to SWEET)]
 Syn. 1. alleviate, lessen.
 Ant. intensify.
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