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" (147 found)
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Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (44)
Related words (73)
Related word relations
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More general
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
More specific
8 entriescalm angerease painfulfill desiremeet expectationquell fearquench thirstsatisfy appetitesoften distress
Collocations
6 entriesassuage angerassuage anxietyassuage concernsassuage fearsassuage guiltassuage pain
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- успокоявам verb (pacify)
- уталожвам verb (pacify)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 使平靜 /使平静 verb (pacify)
- 安慰 verb (pacify)
- 安撫 /安抚 verb (pacify)
- 平定 verb (pacify)
Czech
2 entries- uklidnit verb (pacify)
- utišit verb (pacify)
Finnish
2 entries- rauhoitella verb (pacify)
- rauhoittaa verb (pacify)
French
2 entries- apaiser verb (pacify)
- calmer verb (pacify)
German
2 entries- beschwichtigen verb (pacify)
- besänftigen verb (pacify)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׁכֵּךְ verb (pacify)
Latin
1 entries- sēdō verb (pacify)
Occitan
2 entries- apasimar verb (pacify)
- calmar verb (pacify)
Polish
2 entries- uspokajać verb (pacify)
- uspokoić verb (pacify)
Portuguese
1 entries- acalmar verb (pacify)
Russian
2 entries- успока́ивать verb (pacify)
- успоко́ить verb (pacify)
Scots
2 entries- cowshin verb (pacify)
- mease verb (pacify)
Spanish
3 entries- apaciguar verb (pacify)
- calmar verb (pacify)
- sosegar verb (pacify)
Swedish
1 entries- lugna verb (pacify)
Turkish
2 entries- sakinleştirmek verb (pacify)
- yatıştırmak verb (pacify)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вгамовувати verb (pacify)
- заспокоювати verb (pacify)
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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