assuagement / əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ /

安抚抚慰安慰抚慰剂

assuagement 的定义

v. 有主动词 verb

as·suaged, as·suag·ing.

  1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
  3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.

assuagement 近义词

n. 名词 noun

relief

更多assuagement例句

  1. To listen was an infinite assuagement, one that was overpoweringly sweet, and for some moments she almost forgot.
  2. Again a look of complacency, and blessed assuagement, visited the little man.
  3. It not only responded to the ache she felt within herself, but gave a promise of assuagement.
  4. It seemed to her that there could be no assuagement of his misery—that he were better dead.
  5. Chaucer does not endeavour to console him; he knows the only assuagement for such sorrows, and leads him on to speak of the dead.