Assuage vs Cure - What's the difference?
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To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
* Addison
* Burke
* Byron
* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
To pacify or soothe (someone).
(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
* , chapter=5
, title= Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Luke xii. 32
A solution to a problem.
* Dryden
* Bishop Hurd
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
* Chaucer
* Fuller
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
* (rfdate) Spelman
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
To restore to health.
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To cause to be rid of (a defect).
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
To bring about a of any kind.
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
To solidify or gel.
(obsolete) To become healed.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
As verbs the difference between assuage and cure
is that assuage is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc) while cure is .As a noun cure is
priest bearing the responsibility of a parish a vicar (church of england).assuage
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(assuag)- 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
- 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.
Derived terms
* assuagement * assuagerReferences
* *Anagrams
*cure
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Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
- Past hope! past cure !
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- Of study took he most cure and most heed.
- vicarages of great cure , but small value
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Derived terms
* anti-cure * cure is worse than the disease * cureless * miscure * sweetcure * take the cure * water cureVerb
(cur)- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure .
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.