ASSUAGE


Meaning of ASSUAGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ əsweɪdʒ ]

( 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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