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–verb (used with object), -suaged, -suag·ing.

1.	to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.

2.	to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.

3.	to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME aswagen < OF asouagier < VL *assuāviāre, equiv. to L as- as- + -suāviāre, v. deriv. of L suāvis agreeable to the taste, pleasant (cf. suave; akin to sweet)

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—Related forms

as·suage·ment, noun

as·suag·er, noun

—Synonyms 1. alleviate, lessen.

—Antonyms intensify.

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tr.v. as·suaged, as·suag·ing, as·suag·es

To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve.
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
To pacify or calm: assuage their chronic insecurity.

[Middle English asswagen, from Old French assuagier, from Vulgar Latin *assuāviāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin suāvis, sweet, delightful; see swād- in Indo-European roots.]

as·suage'ment n.

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