assuage
Example Sentences
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Assuage their fears, refrain from escalating, and receive it all—even the concerns you’ve heard a million times by now—with compassion.
From Slate • May 3, 2021
Cauterucci: Assuage your guilt and/or look like you’re doing the right thing to other people.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2021
Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Assuage, great prince, your passion, lest you shew There's somewhat in your soul which fate can bow.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
You, Robert Mellish, To the Blue Anchor hostelry attend him; Assuage his hurts, and bid Bill Richardson Limit his access to the fatal tap.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard
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