Definitions for assuages

assuages as·suage

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

Assuages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in assuages (aaegsssu).

Definitions for assuages

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 assuages

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

Examples for assuages

This word alone sustains and nourishes her, and assuages all her pain.

It is that which assuages the grief of a soldier for a dead comrade, or soon ousts it altogether from his mind.

Patience is often displeasing, but it assuages heavy hearts, and quenches malice.

Their money cannot buy all they enjoy, and God knows how much of their sorrow it assuages.

It assuages and comforts beyond measure for the sufferer to know that he does not suffer alone, but with a great multitude.

But even this suffering is sweet to him: for Love, who conducts and leads him on, assuages and relieves the pain.

And to the end the foresight which guards will be as true a friend to the soldier as the kindness which assuages his pains.

Word Value for assuages
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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