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UK
/ɐswˈeɪdʒ/
]
[ US /əˈsweɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /əˈsweɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
-
provide physical relief, as from pain
This pill will relieve your headaches -
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
She managed to mollify the angry customer -
satisfy (thirst)
The cold water quenched his thirst
How To Use assuage In A Sentence
- It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.
- The pattern of eating to assuage fear and anxiety was established for life. Times, Sunday Times
- But thank you for acknowledging that the principle accomplishment of carbon credits is the assuagement of guilt.
- There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls. Times, Sunday Times
- For those whose curiosity remains unassuaged, a recent CD "Les Travailleurs de la Mer", songs in Dgèrnésiais, is available - clips can be listened to online from Amazon: Languagehat.com: THE LANGUAGES OF GUERNSEY.
- Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures.
- Seeking to assuage fears that Argos could be losing ground to rivals, Mr. Duddy said the store had maintained its market share in consumer electronics and the slump in demand was industrywide. Retailers Slump as Argos Sales Plummet
- The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
- A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
- It is said that they are in flight from an insupportable nervous strain, from which they find temporary assuagement only in sleep.
