It would never occur to Tom to keep a confidence if he thought that revealing it might assuage his soap bubble of an ego.
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Assuage
//əˈsweɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "assuage" (130 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (65)
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More general
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Synonyms
5 entriesderived
6 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- облекчавам verb (mitigate, relieve)
- смекчавам verb (mitigate, relieve)
- успокоявам verb (mitigate, relieve)
- успокоявам verb (pacify)
Catalan
2 entries- alleujar verb (mitigate, relieve)
- assuavir verb (mitigate, relieve)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 使平靜 /使平静 verb (pacify)
- 充飢 /充饥 verb (mitigate, relieve)
- 安慰 verb (pacify)
- 安撫 /安抚 verb (pacify)
Czech
4 entries- uklidnit verb (pacify)
- utišit verb (mitigate, relieve)
- utišit verb (pacify)
- zmírnit verb (mitigate, relieve)
Dutch
2 entries- troosten verb (mitigate, relieve)
- verzachten verb (mitigate, relieve)
Finnish
3 entries- lievittää verb (mitigate, relieve)
- rauhoitella verb (pacify)
- rauhoittaa verb (pacify)
French
4 entries- apaiser verb (mitigate, relieve)
- apaiser verb (pacify)
- assouvir verb (mitigate, relieve)
- calmer verb (pacify)
German
4 entries- abschwächen verb (mitigate, relieve)
- beschwichtigen verb (pacify)
- besänftigen verb (pacify)
- lindern verb (mitigate, relieve)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׁכֵּךְ verb (pacify)
Hungarian
1 entries- csillapít verb (mitigate, relieve)
Japanese
1 entries- 和らげる verb (mitigate, relieve)
Latin
2 entries- lēniō verb (mitigate, relieve)
- sēdō verb (pacify)
Occitan
4 entries- abaucar verb (mitigate, relieve)
- apasimar verb (mitigate, relieve)
- apasimar verb (pacify)
- calmar verb (mitigate, relieve)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قیرمق verb (mitigate, relieve)
Polish
4 entries- uspokajać verb (pacify)
- uspokoić verb (pacify)
- złagodzić verb (mitigate, relieve)
- łagodzić verb (mitigate, relieve)
Portuguese
2 entries- acalmar verb (pacify)
- mitigar verb (mitigate, relieve)
Romanian
1 entries- alina verb (mitigate, relieve)
Russian
4 entries- смягча́ть verb (mitigate, relieve)
- уменьша́ть verb (mitigate, relieve)
- успока́ивать verb (pacify)
- успоко́ить verb (pacify)
Scots
4 entries- cowshin verb (pacify)
- dill verb (mitigate, relieve)
- mease verb (mitigate, relieve)
- mease verb (pacify)
Spanish
4 entries- aliviar verb (mitigate, relieve)
- apaciguar verb (pacify)
- calmar verb (mitigate, relieve)
- calmar verb (pacify)
Swedish
2 entries- lindra verb (mitigate, relieve)
- lugna verb (pacify)
Turkish
4 entries- dindirmek verb (mitigate, relieve)
- sakinleştirmek verb (pacify)
- yatıştırmak verb (mitigate, relieve)
- yatıştırmak verb (pacify)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вгамовувати verb (pacify)
- заспокоювати verb (pacify)
- пом'якшувати verb (mitigate, relieve)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
This medicine will assuage the pain.
Source: tatoeba (6328565)
The German word “Kummerspeck” describes the weight one might gain from eating in a fruitless attempt to assuage grief, stress or exhaustion.
Source: tatoeba (10336249)
I did it to assuage my conscience.
Source: tatoeba (10887906)
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