Assuage
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To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, orlessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion ortumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison.To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke.The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge.Byron.
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To lessen, to dull, to decrease.
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Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.
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to make unpleasant feelings less strong:
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