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assuage | undefined |

As a verb assuage

is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc).

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

assuage

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(assuag)
  • To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  • * Addison
    • Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .
  • * Burke
    • to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
  • * Byron
    • the fount at which the panting mind assuages / her thirst of knowledge
  • * 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
    • 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.
  • To pacify or soothe (someone).
  • (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

    • Derived terms

    * assuagement * assuager

    References

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    Anagrams

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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined