verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assuage sb’s guilt formal (= make someone feel less guilty )
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She died before I got there, and there was nothing I could do to assuage my guilt and regret.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
guilt
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Above all, affirmative action assuages white guilt .
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Ill health removed the pleasures of dissipation for him, and there was nothing to assuage his guilt and regret.
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Or assuage the guilt for abandoning that traditional ideal.
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This itself suggests that such findings assuage some sense of guilt .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Debra tried to assuage my fears.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ha face was pale, her eyes dark-rimmed, and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun's silly chatter.
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His presence alone would be assuaging to her.
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Its escapism and conservatism assuaged the threats of the Cold War world outside.
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My physical hunger could be quite quickly assuaged, my mental starvation was a different matter.
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The decision to look outside the bank for a chief executive is likely to assuage some critics of Barclays in the City.
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This itself suggests that such findings assuage some sense of guilt.