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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: assuage (0.02648 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to assuage.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: assuage
menenangkan, mengakhiri, meredakan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: assuage
assuage
v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
“She managed to mollify the angry customer” [syn:
pacify,
lenify,
conciliate,
appease,
mollify,
placate,
gentle,
gruntle]
2: satisfy (thirst);
“The cold water quenched his thirst” [syn:
quench,
slake,
allay]
3: provide physical relief, as from pain;
“This pill will
relieve your headaches” [syn:
relieve,
alleviate,
palliate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Assuage
Assuage
\As*suage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Assuaged; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Assuaging.] [OE. asuagen, aswagen, OF. asoagier,
asuagier, fr. assouagier, fr. L. ad + suavis sweet. See
Sweet.]
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.
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Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. --Addison.
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To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man --Burke.
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The fount at which the panting mind assuages
Her thirst of knowledge. --Byron.
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Syn: To alleviate; mitigate; appease; soothe; calm;
tranquilize; relieve. See
Alleviate.
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Assuage
\As*suage"\, v. i.
To abate or subside. [Archaic]
“The waters assuaged.”
--Gen. vii. 1.
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The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to
assuage. --De Foe.
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