English

Verb

asswage ‎(third-person singular simple present asswages, present participle asswaging, simple past and past participle asswaged)

1. Obsolete spelling of assuage
   • 1611, Bible (KJV):, Genesis 8:1

     And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

1. • 1611, Bible (KJV):, Job 16:5-6

     5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

     6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

References

• asswage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• asswage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913