Assuage

[Sarah]

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.

[Sarah]

To lessen, to dull, to decrease.

[Oralee]

Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.

[Couch Potatoe]

to make unpleasant feelings less strong: