assuage (assuages 3rd person present) (assuaging present participle) (assuaged past tense & past participle )
1 verb If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
LITERARY To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe... V n
2 verb If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
LITERARY The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. V n