- made milder or less severe; eased: She thought with assuaged grief of her father's tragic death, and how he would have loved to see her now, about to be married.
- (of hunger, thirst, etc.) satisfied or relieved: That’s how it is with desire—it flares up again once the briefly assuaged appetite returns.
- soothed, calmed, or mollified: Volunteering at the clinic gives me an opportunity for social interaction as well as an assuaged conscience because I’m helping out with an important issue.
- the simple past tense and past participle of assuage.
