assuage
as|suage /əsw'eɪdʒ/ (assuages assuaging assuaged)
1 [VERB] V n
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. (LITERARY)
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
2 [VERB] V n
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. (LITERARY)
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
1 [VERB] V n
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. (LITERARY)
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
2 [VERB] V n
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. (LITERARY)
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.