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S vs Assuaged - What's the difference?

s | assuaged |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb assuaged is

(assuage).

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    assuaged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (assuage)

    • 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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