assuage

verb

1. provide physical relief, as from pain

e.g. This pill will relieve your headaches

Synonym: relievealleviatepalliate

2. satisfy (thirst)

e.g. The cold water quenched his thirst

Synonym: quenchslakeallay

3. cause to be more favorably inclined
gain the good will of

e.g. She managed to mollify the angry customer

Synonym: pacifylenifyconciliateappeasemollifyplacategentlegruntle

1. 缓和，减轻（不快）
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.

e.g. To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。
e.g. She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。

2. 满足（需要、欲望）
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.

e.g. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

1. 缓和,宽慰,满足(食欲)：Unorthodox 非正统的,异端的 | Assuage 缓和,宽慰,满足(食欲) | Amicable 亲切的,和蔼的

2. assuage的近义词

2. 缓和, 减轻, 镇定：ASST || American Society for Steel Treating 美国钢处理协会 | assuage || 缓和, 减轻, 镇定 | assuagement || 缓和, 缓和物

3. 缓和,减轻：ASSORTED 混杂的 | ASSUAGE 缓和,减轻 | ASSUME 假定