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Another word for assuage

Verb

  1. To make less severe or more bearable

    2. See also:

    increase

  2. To ease the anger or agitation of

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    calm

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Another word for assuage

Verb

  1. To alleviate

    2. See also:

    relieve

  2. To satisfy

    3. See also:

    satisfy

  3. To calm

    4. See also:

    relieve

    See syn. study at

    quiet

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Sentence Examples

  • I did what little I could to assuage my guilt.

  • He tried to assuage the guilt of wrongdoing by doing right.

  • He was able to assuage the bad feelings.

  • He made a mental note to send a piece of jewelry to her hotel room to assuage guilt over the promised phone call that would never happen.

  • This fact did little to assuage Jade.s guilt when he saw the slaughter around the place he.d once called home.

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