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Astringent vs Assuage - What's the difference?

astringent | assuage |

As a noun astringent

is a substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.

As an adjective astringent

is sharp, caustic, severe.

As a verb assuage is

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

astringent

English

Noun

(wp) (en noun)
  • A substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sharp, caustic, severe.
  • (medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
  • Anagrams

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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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