Augment vs Assuage - What's the difference?
augment | assuage |
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
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 lang=en terms the difference between augment and assuage
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while assuage is to pacify or soothe (someone).As verbs the difference between augment and assuage
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while assuage is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc).As a noun augment
is (grammar) in some indo-european languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.augment
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Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
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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.