Assuage əˈsweɪdʒ Unpleasant Feeling Make Verb 动词 缓和,减轻(不快
Assuage (verb): To make an unpleasant feeling or state less intense or satisfy a need or desire. This word can also be used in literary or formal contexts.
[VERB 动词]缓和,减轻(不快) If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
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[LITERARY 文]
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
为了减轻妻子的悲痛,他带她去了欧洲旅游。
She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。
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[VERB 动词]满足(需要、欲望) If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
[V n]
[LITERARY 文]
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
Oxford
as·suage/əˈsweɪdʒ; NAmEəˈsweɪdʒ/verbassuagesth ( formal) to make an unpleasant feeling less severe 缓和,减轻(不快)assuageassuagesassuagedassuagingas·suage/əˈsweɪdʒ; NAmEəˈsweɪdʒ/