assuage
assuage is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
- intransitive verb. To abate or subside.
- verb. provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
- verb. satisfy (thirst)
"The cold water quenched his thirst"
- verb. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
Synonyms
alleviate, palliate, relieve, allay, quench, slake, appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in assuage:
Common word forms
assuaged, assuager, assuages, assuaging, assuagement
Words from these letters
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