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Webster 1913 Edition
Assuage
As-suage′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Assuaged
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Assuaging
.] [OE.
asuagen
, aswagen
, OF. asoagier
, asuagier
, fr. assouagier
, fr. L. ad
+ suavis
sweet. See Sweet
.] To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
Refreshing winds the summer’s heat
assuage
. Addison.
To
assuage
the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke.
The fount at which the panting mind
Her thirst of knowledge.
assuages
Her thirst of knowledge.
Byron.
Syn. – To alleviate; mitigate; appease; soothe; calm; tranquilize; relieve. See
Alleviate
. As-suage′
,Verb.
I.
To abate or subside.
[Archaic]
“The waters assuaged.” Gen. vii. 1.
The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to
assuage
. De Foe.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assuage
ASSUA'GE
,Verb.
T.
To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease or lessen, as pain or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult. In strictness, it signifies rather to moderate, than to quiet, tranquilize or reduce to perfect peace or ease.
ASSUA'GE
,Verb.
I.
The waters assuaged. Gen. 8.
But I apprehend the sense is, the waters were checked; Heb.