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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.

assuage (动词): 缓和,减轻(不快);满足(需要、欲望)。此词也可以用于形容书面语或正式场合。

word assuage
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assuage
/əswe͟ɪʤ/
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[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.
  [V n]
  [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。

2
[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 ; NAmE əˈsweɪdʒ / verb assuagesth ( formal) to make an unpleasant feeling less severe 缓和,减轻(不快) assuage assuages assuaged assuaging as·suage / əˈsweɪdʒ ; NAmE əˈsweɪdʒ /
LDC
assuageas‧suage /əˈsweɪdʒ/ verb [transitive] literary
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to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe SYN  relieve:  Nothing could assuage his guilt.
WDF

assuage

[əˈsweɪdʒ]assuaged, assuaging, assuages

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VERB26194
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Spoken:

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减轻(53%),缓和(45%),镇定(2%)
vt.平息;缓和;减轻

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