Assuage

(v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

(v. i.) To abate or subside.

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• I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• So this man--it was I--was sent for to come to New York and assuage their grief if possible. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Hold, father, said the Jew, mitigate and assuage your choler. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Food, however, became scarce; and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Consoling her, my own sorrows were assuaged; my sincerity won her entire conviction. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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