assuagement


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as·suage

 (ə-swāj′)
tr.v. as·suaged, as·suag·ing, as·suag·es
1. To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve.
2. To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
3. To appease or calm: assuaged his critics.

[Middle English asswagen, from Old French assuagier, from Vulgar Latin *assuāviāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin suāvis, sweet, delightful; see swād- in Indo-European roots.]

as·suage′ment n.
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Noun1.assuagement - the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reducedassuagement - the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
comfort - a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment
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assuagement

noun
Freedom, especially from pain:
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Violently will my breast then heave; violently will it blow its storm over the mountains: thus cometh its assuagement.
Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr.
As a teen, it was an assuagement of deep childhood anxieties about abandonment and home.
The mechanism of this effect might be the assuagement of parenting stress reflected in the easing of ADHD symptoms.
Full inter-party and public disclosure of each step will ensure public satisfaction, government accountability, and investor assuagement.
As it's known in arid and semi-arid crops are exposed to environmental conditions such as high temperature and low air humidity, in this situation results from experiment observations will be useful consideration in the environment assuagement, reduced transpiration and mitigated abiotic stress for potato production.
"For, in fact, the hospital was my salvation, and it is something of a paradox that in this austere place with its locked and wired doors and desolate green hallways-ambulances screeching night and day ten floors below-I found the repose, the assuagement of the tempest in my brain, that I was unable to find in my quiet farmhouse.
artistic career was shaped by that IDEA--exploring the perplexing destructiveness of pride, the assuagement of guilt, and the means of redemptive deliverance" (1).
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To his vanished friend, Leve writes, "Wavering made you suffer more than deciding did." The act of saying good-bye to oneself, the knowledge that the struggle to resist the enticement of nonexistence is done, may invoke an oddly pleasant assuagement of self-hatred.
Poetry is never a pure space for Cole; it never succeeds in sealing the poet off from the feelings that besiege him, but it nevertheless does hold out the hope of assuagement. Repeatedly the writing of poems is described as a palliative, if not a remedy, for loneliness: "but writing this now, / sometimes in a rush, sometimes after drifting thought, / I feel happiness, I feel I am not alone" ("Solitude: The Tower").