Thesaurus / assuage
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This year’s Super Bowl wouldn’t have helped to assuage those concerns.
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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.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSON
Anything,—anything to assuage in him that sense of ineptitude, of being ignored, a titled nonentity!
THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORGUY WETMORE CARRYL
A growing thirst for beauty has come upon the city, and architects are earnestly studying how to assuage it.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHER
Home is the sphere of the deepest sorrows; the highest consolation of religion should assuage its griefs.
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIEDE. J. HARDY.
He knew the voice of birds, how fires to mitigate, assuage and quench; sorrows to allay.
THE ELDER EDDAS OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON; AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS OF SNORRE STURLESONSAEMUND SIGFUSSON AND SNORRE STURLESON
But I knew nothing that might assuage it; and I told him once more that both of us should be leaving the office at once.
SIXES AND SEVENSO. HENRY
Grated turnips, mixed with horse-radish, for the table, will assuage one's grief for one's grandmother.
If she but knew with what honor I was received, would not the thought go far to assuage the grief our separation cost her?
THAT BOY OF NORCOTT'SCHARLES JAMES LEVER
WORDS RELATED TO ASSUAGE
- abate
- aid
- allay
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- assist
- assuage
- bolster
- buck up
- calm
- cheer
- commiserate with
- compose
- condole
- confirm
- console
- delight
- divert
- ease
- encourage
- enliven
- free
- gladden
- grant respite
- hearten
- help
- inspirit
- invigorate
- lighten burden
- make well
- mitigate
- nourish
- put at ease
- quiet fears
- reanimate
- reassure
- refresh
- relieve
- remedy
- revitalize
- revive
- salve
- soften
- solace
- soothe
- strengthen
- stroke
- succor
- support
- sustain
- sympathize
- uphold
- upraise
- abate
- aid
- allay
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- assist
- assuage
- bolster
- buck up
- calm
- cheer
- commiserate with
- compose
- condole
- confirm
- console
- delight
- divert
- ease
- encourage
- enliven
- free
- gladden
- grant respite
- hearten
- help
- inspirit
- invigorate
- lighten burden
- make well
- mitigate
- nourish
- put at ease
- quiet fears
- reanimate
- reassure
- refresh
- relieve
- remedy
- revitalize
- revive
- salve
- soften
- solace
- soothe
- strengthen
- stroke
- succor
- support
- sustain
- sympathize
- uphold
- upraise
- abate
- aid
- allay
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- assist
- assuage
- bolster
- buck up
- calm
- cheer
- commiserate with
- compose
- condole
- confirm
- console
- delight
- divert
- ease
- encourage
- enliven
- free
- gladden
- grant respite
- hearten
- help
- inspirit
- invigorate
- lighten burden
- make well
- mitigate
- nourish
- put at ease
- quiet fears
- reanimate
- reassure
- refresh
- relieve
- remedy
- revitalize
- revive
- salve
- soften
- solace
- soothe
- strengthen
- stroke
- succor
- support
- sustain
- sympathize
- uphold
- upraise
- adjust
- allay
- appease
- arrange
- assuage
- balm
- becalm
- check
- collect
- comfort
- console
- contain
- control
- cool
- ease
- ease up
- hold in
- lessen
- let up
- lull
- mitigate
- moderate
- modulate
- pacify
- placate
- quell
- quiet
- re-collect
- reconcile
- regulate
- rein
- relax
- repress
- resolve
- restrain
- settle
- simmer down
- slacken
- smother
- soften
- solace
- soothe
- still
- suppress
- temper
- tranquilize
- tune down
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