assuage

Needless to say, scheduling major events on the Jewish High Holidays does nothing to assuage those concerns.

Paul sacrifices little with his base and can only assuage doubts among those concerned about his views on foreign policy.

Obama was not elected on the strength of crossover votes from Republicans seeking to assuage their guilt.

But the GOP could assuage that tension by promulgating a hard-core, Republican version of gay and straight marriage.

Nursing helped to assuage injuries, fatigue, crankiness, and even sickness.

And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it.

The water, to which were added a few drops of primus alcohol, helped to assuage our thirst.

Anything,—anything to assuage in him that sense of ineptitude, of being ignored, a titled nonentity!

A growing thirst for beauty has come upon the city, and architects are earnestly studying how to assuage it.

Home is the sphere of the deepest sorrows; the highest consolation of religion should assuage its griefs.