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assuage [ass-wage] Verb [-suaging, -suaged] to relieve (grief, pain, or thirst) [Latin suavis pleasant]
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He was gloomy because he passionately longed for some vodka, and the only thing that could assuage that longing was tea and he had not yet been offered any. The mother's consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alarm of the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies of the little sufferer. Do, messieurs, do all that your hearts counsel you to assuage the grief of Madame Fouquet. |
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