Usually means: Make an unpleasant feeling less.
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  1. assuage: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. assuage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. assuage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. assuage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. Assuage, assuage: Dictionary.com
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  15. assuage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. assuage: Rhymezone
  17. Assuage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. assuage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. assuage: Free Dictionary
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  22. assuage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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verb:  (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

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