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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.
historical examples

chaucer does not endeavour to console him; he knows the only -ssuagement for such sorrows, and leads him on to speak of the dead.
a literary history of the english people jean jules jusserand

it seemed to her that there could be no -ssuagement of his misery—that he were better dead.
when the c-ck crows waldron baily

violently will my breast then heave; violently will it blow its storm over the mountains: thus cometh its -ssuagement.
thus spake zarathustra friedrich nietzsche

the -ssuagement is still incomplete when our judiths arrive.
the french revolution thomas carlyle

it not only responded to the ache she felt within herself, but gave a promise of -ssuagement.
the dust flower basil king

this channel for the -ssuagement of his anxieties was closed.
halcyone elinor glyn

they witnessed the fever raging in his blood—the fever that clamored for -ssuagement from her.
heart of the blue ridge waldron baily

tom was not one who, in a hot moment, for the -ssuagement of his wrath, would bang down his fist and consign himself to a purpose.
the walking delegate leroy scott

the night was p-ssed in great anguish, and the morrow’s light brought no -ssuagement of her pain.
wilson’s tales of the borders and of scotland various

the one -ssuagement for the pain in her own heart seemed to be the alleviation of the pain in other hearts.
a manifest destiny julia magruder

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.