assuagement

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The condition of being assuaged
The action of assuaging; appeasement
An assuaging medicine or application
{n} an abatement, mitigation, ease
The action of assuaging
Mitigation; abatement
{i} appeasement; act of soothing
the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
assuage
To pacify or soothe (someone)
assuage
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.)

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.

assuage
to cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease
assuage
{v} to soften, ease, abate, lessen, pacify
assuage
{f} sooth, calm, make less intense; appease, satisfy; conciliate
assuage
satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
assuage
provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
assuage
To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate
assuage
To lessen the intensity of to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.)
assuage
To abate or subside
assuage
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe
assuage
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe = relieve (assouagier, from assuaviare, from ad- + suavis )
assuage
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
assuage
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
assuagement

    Hyphenation

    as·suage·ment

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    Etymology

    [ &-'swAj also -'swAz ] (transitive verb.) 14th century. Middle English aswagen, from Old French assouagier, from Vulgar Latin assuaviare, from Latin ad- + suavis sweet; more at SWEET.
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