Assuage

Definition of Assuage

As`suage´

v. t.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Assuaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Assuaging ( ).] Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. - Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man - Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. - Byron.
v. i.	1.	To abate or subside. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. - De Foe.

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