(~s, assuaging, ~d)
1.
If you ~ an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. (LITERARY)
To ~ his wife’s grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. (LITERARY)
The meat they’d managed to procure ~d their hunger.
VERB: V n