Verb: assuage u'sweyj
- Provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will assuage your headaches";
- relieve, alleviate, palliate
- Satisfy (thirst)
"The cold water assuaged his thirst";
- quench, slake, allay
- Cause to be more favourably inclined; gain the good will of
"She managed to assuage the angry customer";
- pacify, lenify [archaic], conciliate, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
Derived forms: assuaging, assuages, assuaged
Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, calm, calm down, conform to, fill, fit, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], improve, lull, meet, meliorate, mend, quiet, quieten [Brit], satisfy, still, tranquilize [N. Amer], tranquillise [Brit], tranquillize
Encyclopedia: Assuage