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assuagement

/uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh/US // əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ //UK // (əˈsweɪdʒ) //

安抚,抚慰,安慰,抚慰剂

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    as·suaged, as·suag·ing.

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

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Examples

  • To listen was an infinite assuagement, one that was overpoweringly sweet, and for some moments she almost forgot.

  • Again a look of complacency, and blessed assuagement, visited the little man.

  • It not only responded to the ache she felt within herself, but gave a promise of assuagement.

  • It seemed to her that there could be no assuagement of his misery—that he were better dead.

  • Chaucer does not endeavour to console him; he knows the only assuagement for such sorrows, and leads him on to speak of the dead.