Assuage (verb)
as-wayj
to make milder or less severe/ to appease; satisfy; sate.
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English aswagen, from Old French asouagier, from unrecorded Vulgar Latin assuāviāre, equivalent to Latin as- as- + -suāviāre, verbal derivative of Latin suāvis “agreeable to the taste, pleasant”
Example sentences
“I won’t do another thing to assuage her anger.”
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