Assuage

It would never occur to Tom to keep a confidence if he thought that revealing it might assuage his soap bubble of an ego.

This medicine will assuage the pain.

The German word “Kummerspeck” describes the weight one might gain from eating in a fruitless attempt to assuage grief, stress or exhaustion.

I did it to assuage my conscience.

Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.

to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

the fount at which the panting mind assuages her thirst of knowledge

1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston 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.