Definitions
provide physical relief, as from pain
Word origin
From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuāviō (“to sweeten, to butter up, to calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (“sweet”) + -iō.
Used in a sentence
“Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.”
“to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man”
“the fount at which the panting mind assuages her thirst of knowledge”
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