assuage [uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh]
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 *assuaviare, equiv. to L as- as- + -suaviare, v. deriv. of L suavis agreeable to the taste, pleasant (cf. suave; akin to sweet)]
Synonyms 1. alleviate, lessen.
Antonyms intensify.
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