Definition of "assuage"

assuage

/əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present assuages, present participle assuaging, simple past and past participle assuaged
1. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  Quotations
  Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.
  1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
  1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension
  the fount at which the panting mind assuages her thirst of knowledge
  1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], stanza CX
  I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
  1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
2. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.