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Assuage vs Unassuaged - What's the difference?

assuage | unassuaged |

As a verb assuage

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

As an adjective unassuaged is

not assuaged; not calmed, appeased, mitigated, alleviated, satisfied or diminished.

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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    unassuaged

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not assuaged; not calmed, appeased, mitigated, alleviated, satisfied or diminished.