Assuages

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 to the end the foresight which guards will be as true a friend to the soldier as the kindness which -ssuages his pains.
the atlantic monthly, volume 15, no. 88, february, 1865 various

their money cannot buy all they enjoy, and g-d knows how much of their sorrow it -ssuages.
balcony stories grace e. king

this word alone sustains and nourishes her, and -ssuages all her pain.
four arthurian romances chretien detroyes

it -ssuages and comforts beyond measure for the sufferer to know that he does not suffer alone, but with a great mult-tude.
epistle sermons, vol. iii martin luther

but even this suffering is sweet to him: for love, who conducts and leads him on, -ssuages and relieves the pain.
four arthurian romances chretien detroyes

it is that which -ssuages the grief of a soldier for a dead comrade, or soon ousts it altogether from his mind.
the irish on the somme michael macdonagh

patience is often displeasing, but it -ssuages heavy hearts, and quenches malice.
early english alliterative poems various

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.