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WOTD – 29 September 2006 Category:Word of the day archive/2006/September Category:Word of the day archive Category:Word of the day archive/2006

Alternative forms

asswage (obsolete)
suage, swage, tasswage (obsolete, poetic)

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#ASSUAGE) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.
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- 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
  to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
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- 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CX:
  the fount at which the panting mind assuages
  her thirst of knowledge
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- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
  I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#ASSUAGE) To pacify or soothe (someone).
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#ASSUAGE, obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#ASSUAGE) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Derived terms

Translations

mitigate, relieve

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Armenian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Armenian#ASSUAGE
Bulgarian: облекчавам (bg) (oblekčavam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ASSUAGE, смекчавам (bg) (smekčavam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ASSUAGE, успокоявам (bg) (uspokojavam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ASSUAGE
Catalan: assuavir (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#ASSUAGE, alleujar (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#ASSUAGE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 緩解 / 缓解 (zh) (huǎnjiě)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 減輕 / 减轻 (zh) (jiǎnqīng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 緩和 / 缓和 (zh) (huǎnhé)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 平息 (zh) (píngxī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 充飢 / 充饥 (zh) (chōngjī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 解渴 (zh) (jiěkě)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE
Czech: utišit (cs) pfCategory:Terms with Czech translations#ASSUAGE, zmírnit pfCategory:Terms with Czech translations#ASSUAGE
Dutch: troosten (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#ASSUAGE, verzachten (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#ASSUAGE
Esperanto: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Esperanto#ASSUAGE
Finnish: lievittää (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#ASSUAGE
French: assouvir (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ASSUAGE, soulager (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ASSUAGE, apaiser (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ASSUAGE
Georgian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Georgian#ASSUAGE
German: lindern (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ASSUAGE, mildern (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ASSUAGE, abschwächen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ASSUAGE
Hungarian: csillapít (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#ASSUAGE
Japanese: 和らげる (ja) (やわらげる, yawarageru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#ASSUAGE
Khmer: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Khmer#ASSUAGE
Korean: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Korean#ASSUAGE
Latin: lēniōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#ASSUAGE
Mongolian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Mongolian#ASSUAGE
Occitan: mitigarCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#ASSUAGE, calmar (oc)Category:Terms with Occitan translations#ASSUAGE, apasimar (oc)Category:Terms with Occitan translations#ASSUAGE, abaucar (oc)Category:Terms with Occitan translations#ASSUAGE
Polish: łagodzić (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ASSUAGE, złagodzić (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ASSUAGE
Portuguese: mitigar (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#ASSUAGE
Romanian: alina (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#ASSUAGE
Russian: уменьша́ть (ru) (umenʹšátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ASSUAGE, смягча́ть (ru) (smjaxčátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ASSUAGE
Scots: dillCategory:Terms with Scots translations#ASSUAGE, measeCategory:Terms with Scots translations#ASSUAGE, (hunger, thirst) suageCategory:Terms with Scots translations#ASSUAGE
Spanish: (feelings) calmar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE, (pain) aliviar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE, (passion) mitigar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE, (desire) satisfacer (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE
Swedish: lindra (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#ASSUAGE
Thai: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Thai#ASSUAGE
Turkish: yatıştırmak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#ASSUAGE, dindirmek (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#ASSUAGE
Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#ASSUAGE
Ukrainian: пом'якшувати (pomʺjakšuvaty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#ASSUAGE
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Vietnamese#ASSUAGE

pacify

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Bulgarian: успокоявам (bg) (uspokojavam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ASSUAGE, уталожвам (bg) (utaložvam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ASSUAGE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 使平靜 / 使平静 (shǐ píngjìng)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 安慰 (zh) (ānwèi)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 撫慰 / 抚慰 (zh) (fǔwèi)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 平定 (zh) (píngdìng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE, 安撫 / 安抚 (zh) (ānfǔ)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ASSUAGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ASSUAGE
Czech: utišit (cs) pfCategory:Terms with Czech translations#ASSUAGE, uklidnit (cs) pfCategory:Terms with Czech translations#ASSUAGE
Finnish: rauhoittaa (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#ASSUAGE, rauhoitella (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#ASSUAGE
French: apaiser (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ASSUAGE, calmer (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ASSUAGE
German: besänftigen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ASSUAGE, beschwichtigen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ASSUAGE
Hebrew: שִׁכֵּךְ (shikékh)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#ASSUAGE
Japanese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Japanese#ASSUAGE
Korean: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Korean#ASSUAGE
Latin: sēdōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#ASSUAGE
Occitan: apasimar (oc)Category:Terms with Occitan translations#ASSUAGE, calmar (oc)Category:Terms with Occitan translations#ASSUAGE
Polish: uspokajać (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ASSUAGE, uspokoić (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ASSUAGE
Portuguese: acalmar (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#ASSUAGE
Russian: успока́ивать (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ASSUAGE, успоко́ить (ru) pf (uspokóitʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ASSUAGE
Scots: measeCategory:Terms with Scots translations#ASSUAGE, cowshinCategory:Terms with Scots translations#ASSUAGE
Spanish: apaciguar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE, sosegar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE, calmar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ASSUAGE
Swedish: lugna (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#ASSUAGE
Turkish: sakinleştirmek (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#ASSUAGE, yatıştırmak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#ASSUAGE
Ukrainian: заспокоювати (zaspokojuvaty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#ASSUAGE, вгамовувати (vhamovuvaty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#ASSUAGE

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