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Modify vs Assuage - What's the difference?

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Modify is a related term of assuage.


In lang=en terms the difference between modify and assuage

is that modify is to be or become modified while assuage is to pacify or soothe (someone).

As verbs the difference between modify and assuage

is that modify is to make partial changes to while assuage is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc).

modify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make partial changes to.
  • To be or become modified.

    • Synonyms

    * adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

    Related terms

    * modification * modifier

    References

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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

    References

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