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Meanings of assuage in English

Portuguese
acalmar
Catalan
apaivagar
Spanish
aliviar

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.

      acalmar
      Portuguese
      aliviar
      Catalan
      apaivagar
      Spanish
      aliviar

      To make easier to endure; provide physical relief, as from pain.

            aliviar
            Portuguese
            acalmar
            Catalan
            apaivagar
            Spanish
            apaciguar

            Satisfy (thirst)

                  acalmar

                  To lessen the intensity of a situation.

                        Usage of assuage in English
                        1
                        Being able to show good governance structures will help assuage such fears.
                        The Irish Times
                        2
                        Therefore it does not assuage bodily pain, which is in the senses.
                        Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
                        3
                        And, I suppose, also to assuage my own personal sense of guilt.
                        The whore of babylon, a memoir
                        4
                        To assuage that unhappiness he had taken a considerable quantity of drink.
                        And Then There Were None
                        5
                        Even this wholesale massacre did not assuage the wrath of the corsair.
                        Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem ...
                        6
                        But this success did not assuage the hunger of the famished colonists.
                        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
                        7
                        Nothing could assuage my grief; for nothing now could arouse my anger.
                        Mauprat
                        8
                        Insofar as London and Paris could assuage Rome, they would do so.
                        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
                        9
                        Moments passed, but the Messenger did nothing to assuage our growing anxiety.
                        Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
                        10
                        There is nothing I can say to you to assuage your feelings.
                        Book Two: Descent
                        11
                        Some of the little fathers also drank, to assuage an hereditary thirst.
                        The Sowers
                        12
                        But the chancellor's resolve didn't assuage the unease of her own party.
                        The Guardian
                        13
                        We assuage our guilt with sacrificial offerings to the spirit of childhood.
                        The Irish Times
                        14
                        Other events now transpired which began to assuage his opposition to France.
                        The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
                        15
                        He'd hoped that by punishing Hoshina, he could assuage his own guilt.
                        The Dragon King’s Palace
                        16
                        Korngold was indignant at these mutilations, but Paul wrote to assuage him.
                        The house of wittgenstein: a family at war
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