assuage
IPA: ʌswˈeɪdʒ
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "assuage" in Sentences
- Hopefully this will assuage the controversy.
- Perhaps some of the regulars here can assuage it.
- But grief can be assuaged by the fellowship of friends.
- I hope this assuages some of the concerns raised above.
- Celebrational music can assuage fears and satisfy the spirits.
- The verdict did nothing to assuage the ferocity of the debate.
- He promises her the 'Interceptor' in an attempt to assuage her.
- May the good memories assuage your sadness and bring you peace.
- Nothing you do will assuage the misery of your lonely empty life.
- Upcoming second-quarter results may do little to assuage such fears.
- Maybe I can make more changes to the article to assuage your concerns.
- However, the bravery of the 54th would help to assuage anger of this kind.
- To assuage those concerns, we have looked hard to see if we have missed the real story.
- Sometimes numbers invoke or ask for favors; other times they assuage hurt feelings in the hope of preventing malign events.
- The move would be to "assuage" DT holders who are "disenchanted" with the performance of the German telco's stock, the Journal says.
- Despite a recent EU agreement to help assuage the euro-zone debt crisis, bond market participants fear it may flare again at any time.
- Paris insisted right after the Fukushima accident that French plants were safe, but wanted inspections as a precautionary measure to assuage any fears in the French population.
- And I don't see anywhere that our President thanked president nut-case in NKorea ... sending Bubba was enough to assuage the super-ego to do what he knew he'd have to do all along.
- 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.
- So I think people that are urging war crime trials ought to spend more time trying to assuage worries, e.g. that war crime trials would be seen as illegitimate, would provoke a nationalistic backlash, would start a civil war, or something along those lines, instead of just shouting “principals” and “the law ought to apply to the powerful just as much as the not-powerful” both of which I agree with. pseudonymous in nc Says:
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