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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

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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.

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  • 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.

 

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