assuage

verbB1

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verb

V_es/s

assuages

V_ing/Gerund

assuaging

V_ed/pp

assuagedasswage

1.
(transitive)To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
2.
(transitive)To pacify or soothe (someone).
3.
(intransitive, obsolete)To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

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unassuagedassuaginglyunassuagingassuageableassuagementassuager

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (to appease, to calm), from *assuāviō (to sweeten, to butter up, to calm), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (sweet) + -iō.