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Definition of Assuage
1. Verb. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of. "The performance is likely to assuage Sue"; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
Generic synonyms: Calm, Calm Down, Lull, Quiet, Quieten, Still, Tranquilize, Tranquillise, Tranquillize
Derivative terms: Appeasable, Conciliation, Conciliation, Conciliative, Conciliator, Mollification, Mollification, Pacification, Pacifier, Peace, Peace, Placation, Placative, Placatory
2. Verb. Satisfy (thirst). "The cold water quenched his thirst"
Entails: Consume, Have, Ingest, Take, Take In
Generic synonyms: Fill, Fulfil, Fulfill, Meet, Satisfy
3. Verb. Provide physical relief, as from pain. "This pill will relieve your headaches"
Specialized synonyms: Soothe, Comfort, Ease
Generic synonyms: Ameliorate, Amend, Better, Improve, Meliorate
Derivative terms: Alleviant, Alleviation, Alleviation, Alleviative, Alleviator, Alleviator, Alleviatory, Assuagement, Palliation, Palliative
Definition of Assuage
1. v. t. 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.
2. v. i. To abate or subside.
Definition of Assuage
1. Verb. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone). ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assuage
1. to make less severe [v -SUAGED, -SUAGING, -SUAGES]
Literary usage of Assuage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the by Francis Turner Palgrave (1897)
"When vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is
vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And cull the dew-drench'd ..."
2. Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. by Vicesimus Knox (1805)
"When philosophy, and even religion, have failed to assuage sorrow, a flood of
tears has afforded consolation. The shower has fallen copiously, ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... and was indefatigable in his endeavours to ameliorate the situation and assuage
the sufferings of the unfortunate inmates of that admirable ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"... mind can no longer lay hold of or reason upon doubts, that the tumult of the
passions commences, and while it rages, it is vain to try to assuage them. ..."
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