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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of assuage.
Etymologies
- Middle English asswagen, from Old French assuagier, from Vulgar Latin *assuāviāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin suāvis, sweet, delightful; see swād- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“assuaged" -- a favourite word with Mr. Broad -- if he had believed in those "remedies.”
“And thank you, posters, who "assuaged" my outrage over this maneuver on the part of the anti-gay.”
“For even if those who raped and killed his family could be brought to trial, as Ngabu so desperately wants, no such grief could be assuaged or horror undone.”
“And my fears weren't particularly assuaged when I arrived at the Holiday Inn-like structure an hour and $45 later and had to pass through an IRT-like subway turnstile, after paying a $35 admission fee.”
“The European Central Bank's efforts in December to extend three-year, low-cost loans to banks assuaged market fears about a banking crisis, laying a foundation for the rally in riskier assets.”
“Those concerns, however, may have been assuaged this week after President Barack Obama announced the new investigative unit.”
“Though we were all a little concerned about a sharp beak coming at us full throttle, Mr. Burdett assuaged our fears.”
“After all, there are all those new voters whose expectations will have to be assuaged if he is to be re-elected.”
“But fans of quality drama were assuaged by another strong episode that tiptoes gingerly through the minefield of the Kalinda-slept-with-Peter revelation.”
“Although black regiments participated in 39 major battles and 449 minor engagements, it was their remarkable valor in several battles in 1863 and 1864 that assuaged Northern prejudices, impressing naysayers enough to give serious consideration to the widespread use of black soldiers.”
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