Assuage
verb
To make an unpleasant feeling less intense.
The letter assuaged the fears of most members
Often appears as...
- assuage the pain
- assuage the guilt
verb
To satisfy an appetite or desire.
An effort to assuage critics
Often appears as...
- assuage the hunger
- assuage the thirst
verb
To make an unpleasant feeling less intense.
The letter assuaged the fears of most members
Often appears as...
- assuage the pain
- assuage the guilt
verb
To satisfy an appetite or desire.
An effort to assuage critics
Often appears as...
- assuage the hunger
- assuage the thirst
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Lessening Feelings
Used to describe reducing the strength of negative emotions or sensations.
A heartfelt apology can assuage feelings of anger.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Relief
Often applied in situations offering comfort or consolation to someone upset.
Hearing her missing dog was found assuaged her distress.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Eliminate
Doesn't necessarily mean to completely remove, but to lessen to a more bearable level.
The medication assuaged his headache, but it didn't disappear completely.
Pro Tip 1/3Lessening Feelings
Used to describe reducing the strength of negative emotions or sensations.
A heartfelt apology can assuage feelings of anger.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Relief
Often applied in situations offering comfort or consolation to someone upset.
Hearing her missing dog was found assuaged her distress.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Eliminate
Doesn't necessarily mean to completely remove, but to lessen to a more bearable level.
The medication assuaged his headache, but it didn't disappear completely.
Pro Tip 1/3Lessening Feelings
Used to describe reducing the strength of negative emotions or sensations.
A heartfelt apology can assuage feelings of anger.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Relief
Often applied in situations offering comfort or consolation to someone upset.
Hearing her missing dog was found assuaged her distress.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Eliminate
Doesn't necessarily mean to completely remove, but to lessen to a more bearable level.
The medication assuaged his headache, but it didn't disappear completely.
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Venturing into the Heart...
had a moment of panic and i pick him up and then i started singing i realized when i was doing that um i started to ask myself whose fears was i really assuaging was it his or was it also mine hannah's curiosity led her around the world
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Virginia Smith: The...
on flood protection infrastructure in India, it resulted in 248 dollars of avoided damages. Similar results were shown in other countries. If we can invest in mitigation, we can assuage the cost of flood recovery,
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The power of a great...
were assuaged, he was seldom self conscious about his injury." "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot
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Venturing into the Heart...
had a moment of panic and i pick him up and then i started singing i realized when i was doing that um i started to ask myself whose fears was i really assuaging was it his or was it also mine hannah's curiosity led her around the world
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Virginia Smith: The...
on flood protection infrastructure in India, it resulted in 248 dollars of avoided damages. Similar results were shown in other countries. If we can invest in mitigation, we can assuage the cost of flood recovery,
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The power of a great...
were assuaged, he was seldom self conscious about his injury." "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot
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Shelby Steele
American Author
Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.
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Richard N. Haass
American Diplomat
In a world in which the United States does less, whatever set of calculations, other countries will tend to calculate - to move in one of two ways. Either they will assuage or, to use a more loaded term, appease the strongest power in the neighborhood with all the consequences of that, or they will determine to take matters into their own hands.
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Henry Louis Gates
American Critic
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Niger Innis
American Activist
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
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Samuel West
British Actor
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
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Vikram Chatwal
American Businessman
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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Shelby Steele
American Author
Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.
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Richard N. Haass
American Diplomat
In a world in which the United States does less, whatever set of calculations, other countries will tend to calculate - to move in one of two ways. Either they will assuage or, to use a more loaded term, appease the strongest power in the neighborhood with all the consequences of that, or they will determine to take matters into their own hands.
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Henry Louis Gates
American Critic
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Niger Innis
American Activist
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
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Samuel West
British Actor
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
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Vikram Chatwal
American Businessman
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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