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ASSUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide physical relief, as from pain

Example:

This pill will relieve your headaches

Synonyms:

alleviate; assuage; palliate; relieve

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "assuage" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "assuage"):

soothe (cause to feel better)

comfort; ease (lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

assuagement (the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Satisfy (thirst)

Example:

The cold water quenched his thirst

Synonyms:

allay; assuage; quench; slake

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "assuage" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

"Assuage" entails doing...:

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Example:

She managed to mollify the angry customer

Synonyms:

appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "assuage" is one way to...):

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to assuage Sue

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