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to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate:
to -ssuage one’s grief; to -ssuage one’s pain.
to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve:
to -ssuage one’s hunger.
to soothe, calm, or mollify:
to -ssuage his fears; to -ssuage her anger.
contemporary examples

at least with a physical or mental ailment some guilt can be -ssuaged.
why i choose to be child-free: readers share their stories harry siegel february 26, 2013

will the twenty percenters be -ssuaged if hillary accepts the job of secretary of state?
will secretary of state be enough for hillary’s army? tina brown november 17, 2008

historical examples

but her thirst of wealth is not of those that can be -ssuaged even by rivers of gold.
blackwood’s edinburgh magazine, vol. 60, no. 374, december, 1846 various

so mr. croy showed he could qualify the humble hand that -ssuaged him.
the wings of the dove, volume 1 of 2 henry james

her wild despair seems to be -ssuaged by the thought that her son died gloriously.
greek women mitch-ll carroll

next morning, however, this fever of fraternal suspense was -ssuaged.
the doctor’s family mrs. (margaret) oliphant

a week’s rest and happiness have restored the colour to her comely face and -ssuaged all evil memories.
the secret of sarek maurice leblanc

the grief of antonina could only be -ssuaged by the sufferings of her son.
the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire edward gibbon

but a whole aviary of highly colored songsters would not have -ssuaged gay’s woe at that moment.
timothy’s quest kate douglas wiggin

the bitterness of his sorrow is past; his thirst for vengeance is -ssuaged.
studies of the greek poets (vol i of 2) john addington symonds

verb (transitive)
to soothe, moderate, or relieve (grief, pain, etc)
to give relief to (thirst, appet-te, etc); satisfy
to pacify; calm
v.

c.1300, from anglo-french -ssuager, old french -ssoagier “soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify,” from vulgar latin -adsuaviare, from latin ad- “to” (see ad-) + suavis “sweet, agreeable” (see sweet). for sound development in french, cf. deluge from latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. related: -ssuaged; -ssuaging.