ASSUAGE

relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage

(verb) provide physical relief, as from pain; “This pill will relieve your headaches”

quench, slake, allay, assuage

(verb) satisfy (thirst); “The cold water quenched his thirst”

pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle

(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; “She managed to mollify the angry customer”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

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.).

(transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).

(intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Anagrams

• sausage

Source: Wiktionary

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As*suage", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assuaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Assuaging.] Etym: [OE. asuagen, aswagen, OF. asoagier, asuagier, fr. assouagier, fr. L. ad + suavis sweet. See Sweet.]

Definition: To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

Syn.

– To alleviate; mitigate; appease; soothe; calm; tranquilize; relieve. See Alleviate.

As*suage", v. i.

Definition: To abate or subside. [Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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