assuage

Meaning

1. To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
2. To pacify or soothe (someone).
3. (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Synonyms

soothe

alleviate

allay

appease

pacify

relieve

mitigate

palliate

ease

calm

quiet

lessen

still

satisfy

sate

slake

tranquilize

lenify

attenuate

satiate

soften

gratify

placate

quench

mollify

subdue

comfort

content

diminish

lighten

let up

temper

gruntle

kill

🔪🩸👤

conciliate

quiten

abate

reduce

console

quell

weaken

solace

stay

gentle

humiliate

hush

improve

indulge

liquidate

lower

minimize

moderate

mortify

overcome

overthrow

pass through

patch up

abase

pull down

put out

quieten

reassure

relax

remedy

remit

revive

shoot

shoot dead

slaughter

slay

snuff out

staunch

stub

suffice

surmount

switch off

tackle

take down

slacken off

tranquillize

treat

turn off

turn out

use up

vanquish

win over

tranquilise

please

ameliorate

attain

attemper

beat

becalm

breakdown

butcher

calm down

cater

cheer

chop

compose

condole

cool

🆒

cover

cure

curtail

cut

cut off

dampen

deaden

defeat

demolish

depress

dig up

discourage

dishearten

douse

down

downsize

drop

enervate

enfeeble

excavate

exhaust

extinguish

feed

gladden

go through

grub

hack

heal

hearten

Hyphenated as

as‧suage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: aswagen

In summary

From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuāviō (“I sweeten, I butter up, I calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (“sweet”) + -iō.