Definitions for assuage

assuage as·suage

Spelling: [uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh]
IPA: /əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ/

Assuage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in assuage (aaegssu).

Definitions for assuage

verb (used with object)

  1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate:
  2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve:
  3. to soothe, calm, or mollify:

Origin of assuage

1250-1300; Middle English aswagen Old French asouagier Vulgar Latin *assuāviāre, equivalent to Latin as- as- + -suāviāre, verbal derivative

Examples for assuage

For a long while he was preoccupied by an intense desire to assuage it.

But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.

It was Roger's first experience in trying to assuage the grief of any one else.

Needless to say, scheduling major events on the Jewish High Holidays does nothing to assuage those concerns.

Paul sacrifices little with his base and can only assuage doubts among those concerned about his views on foreign policy.

Obama was not elected on the strength of crossover votes from Republicans seeking to assuage their guilt.

Nursing helped to assuage injuries, fatigue, crankiness, and even sickness.

To assuage remorse, she sought to give evidence as to a prevalent sympathy.

But the GOP could assuage that tension by promulgating a hard-core, Republican version of gay and straight marriage.

Thus I assuage my conscience and justify the fun, the joy, the excitement, and the violence.

Word Value for assuage
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8

Words with friends

10

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