Synonym: allay, alleviate, calm, check, ease, lessen, moderate, pacify, quiet, relieve, restrain. Similar words: language, assure, assume, assumption, passage, issue, dress up, tissue. Meaning: [ə'sweɪdʒ] 
v. 1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of 2. satisfy (thirst) 3. provide physical relief, as from pain.
v. 1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of 2. satisfy (thirst) 3. provide physical relief, as from pain. 
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31. " I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.
32. The calf would give them access to forces that could assuage their fears.
33. Little Sheep has taken pains to assuage food - safety concerns.
34. Similarly, developers who would assuage fears of 13 can't avoid the existence of a 13th floor in buildings with 13 or more stories.
35. Let me turn now to a consideration of some psychotherapeutic as well as religious efforts to assuage existence anxiety. Consider first the ultimate concern of meaninglessness .
36. Charlotte would assuage him with some peculiar triumph of her culinary art.
37. She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
38. The retreat did little to assuage fears about high energy prices, however.