Astringent vs Assuage - What's the difference?
astringent | assuage |
Sharp, caustic, severe.
(medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
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.
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
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(en adjective)Anagrams
* ----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.