assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ/ ( assuaging, assuaged, assuages )

• 1. 

  V-T If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 缓解; 减轻 [文学性]

  例：

  To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.

  为了缓解妻子的悲伤，他带她去欧洲旅游了一趟。

• 2. 

  V-T If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. 使满足 [文学性]

  例：

  The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.

  他们想方设法获得的肉食使他们得以充饥。