assuage

Significado (Inglês)

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

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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
Etimologia (Inglês)

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.

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