| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To alleviate, allay, salve, sweeten or relieve.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To soothe, appease, placate, mollify or pacify. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To satisfy, settle, subside or decant. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To quench or quell. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To restrain, curb or deaden. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To ease or comfort. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To palliate, mitigate or trivialize. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To lighten or unburden.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Present participle conjugation of the verb assuage.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (assuage) | 1. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.[Wordnet]. 2. Satisfy (thirst).[Wordnet]. 3. Provide physical relief, as from pain.[Wordnet]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. To abate or subside.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: assuaging, assuaged, assuages, assuager, assuagers, assuagingly and assuagedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ASSUAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1745. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ASSUAGING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Allaying; mitigating; appeasing; abating. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
