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assuage
to make an unpleasant feeling less intense
In more detail
1. (verb) to make something less severe or intense; to ease or reduce
2. (verb) to calm or pacify someone who is angry or upset
Examples
- 1. The medicine helped assuage her pain.
- 2. He tried to assuage her fears with reassuring words.
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