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Feb 12, 2012
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as•suage



Pronunciation: (u-swāj', u-swāzh'), [key]
—v.t., -suaged, -suag•ing.
1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.

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