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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

and just as tears help to an -ssuaging of grief, so in a sense laughter makes an end of mirth.
irish books and irish people stephen gwynn

whatever happens, i have at least this -ssuaging secret message from my son.
the prairie child arthur stringer

all three -ssuaging their thirst in the lake, so to speak, made it at last turn into a pool.
the gtakaml rya sra

does not the word come like a soft shower, -ssuaging the fury of the flame?
thoughts for the quiet hour various

what malevolent power forced him to be the cause of this sorrow and yet forbade him the privilege of -ssuaging it?
the spell william dana orcutt

he is devoted to the -ssuaging of human miseries, and he has had much to do.
the heavenly father ernest naville

what a soft, soothing, -ssuaging contrast with the difficult lois, so imperious and egoistic!
the roll-call arnold bennett

let us hope that such headgear may have some -ssuaging effect on the departed spirits of husbands.
can you forgive her? anthony trollope

the pain was paramount; and after -ssuaging it, i turned my eyes once more towards the cliff.
the wild huntress mayne reid

she leaned forward out of the little window with a feeling of -ssuaging horror.
the goose man jacob w-ssermann

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.