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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To soften, in a figurative sense; allay; mitigate, ease, or lessen, as pain or grief; moderate; appease or pacify, as passion or tumult.
  2. Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, etc. (see alleviate); to appease, mollify, temper (see lists under alleviate and allay).
  3. To abate or subside; grow less: as, “let thin hert assuage,” Gower; “the waters asswaged,”

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  2. v. transitive To pacify or soothe (someone).
  3. v. intransitive (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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. Archaic To abate or subside.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. satisfy (thirst)
  2. v. provide physical relief, as from pain
  3. v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Etymologies

  1. Middle English aswagen, from Old French assouagier "appease, calm", from Vulgar Latin assuaviare, derived from Latin ad- "ad-" + suavis "sweet". (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English asswagen, from Old French assuagier, from Vulgar Latin *assuāviāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin suāvis, sweet, delightful; see swād- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Prolagus Time can assuage the pangs of love, but only death can still the anguish of wounded vanity.
    (W.S. Maugham) Mar 11, 2008

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