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Assuages vs Asswages - What's the difference?

assuages | asswages |

As verbs the difference between assuages and asswages

is that assuages is third-person singular of assuage while asswages is third-person singular of asswage.

assuages

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assuage)

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    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

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    asswages

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (asswage)

    • asswage

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * , Genesis 8:1
    • And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged ;
  • * , Job 16:5-6
    • 5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
    6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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