- to make milder or less severe; alleviate; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief;to assuage one's pain.
- to appease; satisfy; sate: to assuage one's hunger.
- to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears;to assuage her anger.
- to soothe, moderate, or relieve (grief, pain, etc)
- to give relief to (thirst, appetite, etc); satisfy
- to pacify; calm