Thesaurus / assuage
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
This year’s Super Bowl wouldn’t have helped to assuage those concerns.
FUTURE OF TV BRIEFING: STREAMING SERVICES COUNT ON CONTENT TO KEEP SUBSCRIBERS ACQUIRED IN 2020TIM PETERSONFEBRUARY 10, 2021DIGIDAY
People also voted publicly, and a glass ballot box was designed to show that votes were being counted and assuage fears of fraud.
THE 2020 ELECTION SET A RECORD FOR VOTER TURNOUT. BUT WHY IS IT NORMAL FOR SO MANY AMERICANS TO SIT OUT ELECTIONS?OLIVIA B. WAXMANNOVEMBER 5, 2020TIME
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.
WORDS RELATED TO ASSUAGE
- allay
- alleviate
- appease
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- balm
- becalm
- butter up
- calm down
- cheer
- compose
- console
- cool
- cool off
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- help
- hush
- lighten
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- make nice
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- mollify
- pacify
- patch things up
- play up to
- pour oil on
- quiet
- quieten
- relieve
- settle
- smooth down
- soften
- square
- still
- stroke
- subdue
- take the edge off
- take the sting out
- tranquilize
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- cool
- cool off
- dulcify
- help
- hush
- lighten
- lull
- make nice
- make up
- mitigate
- mollify
- pacify
- patch things up
- play up to
- pour oil on
- quiet
- quieten
- relieve
- settle
- smooth down
- soften
- square
- still
- stroke
- subdue
- take the edge off
- take the sting out
- tranquilize
- unburden
- untrouble
- allay
- alleviate
- appease
- assuage
- balm
- becalm
- butter up
- calm down
- cheer
- compose
- console
- cool
- cool off
- dulcify
- help
- hush
- lighten
- lull
- make nice
- make up
- mitigate
- mollify
- pacify
- patch things up
- play up to
- pour oil on
- quiet
- quieten
- relieve
- settle
- smooth down
- soften
- square
- still
- stroke
- subdue
- take the edge off
- take the sting out
- tranquilize
- unburden
- untrouble
- abate
- adjust
- admix
- allay
- alleviate
- assuage
- chill out
- cool
- cool out
- curb
- dilute
- ease
- fine tune
- lessen
- make reasonable
- mitigate
- modulate
- mollify
- monkey around with
- pacify
- palliate
- relieve
- restrain
- revamp
- soft-pedal
- soften
- soothe
- switch
- take the bite out of
- take the edge off
- take the sting out of
- tone down
- transmogrify
- weaken
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- admix
- allay
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- chill out
- cool
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- dilute
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- make reasonable
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- modulate
- mollify
- monkey around with
- pacify
- palliate
- relieve
- restrain
- revamp
- soft-pedal
- soften
- soothe
- switch
- take the bite out of
- take the edge off
- take the sting out of
- tone down
- transmogrify
- weaken
- abate
- adjust
- admix
- allay
- alleviate
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- chill out
- cool
- cool out
- curb
- dilute
- ease
- fine tune
- lessen
- make reasonable
- mitigate
- modulate
- mollify
- monkey around with
- pacify
- palliate
- relieve
- restrain
- revamp
- soft-pedal
- soften
- soothe
- switch
- take the bite out of
- take the edge off
- take the sting out of
- tone down
- transmogrify
- weaken
- abate
- aid
- allay
- ameliorate
- anesthetize
- appease
- assist
- assuage
- attend to
- calm
- cheer
- clear the way
- comfort
- cure
- disburden
- disengage
- doctor
- expedite
- facilitate
- forward
- free
- further
- improve
- lessen
- let up
- let up on
- lift
- lighten
- loose
- loosen
- make easier
- meliorate
- mitigate
- moderate
- mollify
- nurse
- open the door
- pacify
- palliate
- promote
- quiet
- relax
- release
- relent
- relieve
- run interference for
- simplify
- slack
- slacken
- smooth
- soften
- soothe
- speed
- speed up
- still
- tranquilize
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