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(assuages, assuaging, assuaged) 1. If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. (LITERARY) To assuage his wife’s grief, he took her on a tour of Europe... VERB: V n 2. If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. (LITERARY) The meat they’d managed to procure assuaged their hunger. VERB: V n
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transitive verb (~d; assuaging) Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from Anglo-French asuager, from Vulgar Latin *assuaviare, from Latin ad- + suavis sweet — more at sweet Date: 14th century 1. to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) ; ease unable to ~ their grief 2. pacify, quiet vainly strove…to ~ an implacable foe — Edward Gibbon 3. to put an end to by satisfying ; appease, quench assuaging his thirst Synonyms: see relieve • ~ment noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 calm or soothe (a person, pain, etc.). 2 appease or relieve (an appetite or desire). Derivatives assuagement n. assuager n. Etymology: ME f. OF as(s)ouagier ult. f. L suavis sweet ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. успокаивать, смягчать (боль, горе и т. п.) time assuages —- время лечит 2. умиротворять, успокаивать 3. утолять (голод, жажду) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) успокаивать (гнев и т.п.); смягчать (горе, боль) 2) утолять (голод) Syn: see lessen ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v literary to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe; relieve (1) (Nothing could assuage his guilt.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. asouagier, from V.L. *adsuaviare, from L. ad- "to" + suavis "sweet, agreeable." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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