Assuage vs Suage - What's the difference?
assuage | suage |
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.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between assuage and suage
is that assuage is (obsolete) to calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc); to subside, to abate while suage is (obsolete) to assuage.As verbs the difference between assuage and suage
is that assuage is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc) while suage is (obsolete) to assuage.assuage
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* (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.
