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)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

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.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.