Word Meanings - ASSUAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage
Additional info about word: ASSUAGE
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. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron. Syn. -- To alleviate; mitigate; appease; soothe; calm; tranquilize; relieve. See Alleviate.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSUAGE)
- Allay
- soothe
- alleviate
- repress
- mitigate
- quiet
- moderate
- appease
- compose
- soften
- pacify
- mollify
- assuage
- tranquilize
- palliate
- culm
- Alleviate
- Lighten
- lessen
- relieve
- remit
- diminish
- Calm
- Smooth
- allay
- still
- Console
- Relieve
- solace
- encourage
- comfort
- Heal
- Cure
- repair
- restore
- remedy
- cicatrize
- reconcile
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASSUAGE)
Related words: (words related to ASSUAGE)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - COMFORTABLY
In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - DIMINISHER
One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke . - LESSENER
One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers . - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - STILLING
A stillion. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - CICATRIZE
To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - SUPREMITY
Supremacy. Fuller. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - REDIMINISH
To diminish again. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - EREMITE
A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats. - CAPACIFY
To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.