Dictionary Entry

assuage

Part of Speech: verbPronunciation: /əˈsweɪdʒ/Used In Literature ↓

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

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Poetry examples for “assuage”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And given little to long sighing,
With no illusion to assuage
The lonely changelessness of dying,--

And then they flowed like mountain rills,
Unless he could assuage the woe 90
Which he abhorred to view below.

And o'er him many changing scenes must roll
Ere toil his thirst for travel can assuage,[bn]
Or he shall calm his breast, or learn experience sage.

Let Recollection take a tender part,
Assuage the raging tortures of your heart,
Still the wild tempest of tumultuous grief,

Soothing she answered him: 'Assuage,
Mine honored friend, the fears of age;

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fill these void veins full again with youth