Assuage: meaning, example and synonyms
Assuagev. To make an unpleasant feeling less intense; to relieve or soothe.
Example
To assuage residents' fears about the new reactor, the engineers published their safety data and invited independent inspectors to review it.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- soothe, ease, relieve, allay
- Antonyms
- aggravate, intensify, worsen, inflame
- Memory tip
- From Latin suavis ("sweet"): to assuage is to sweeten a pain.
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Check yourself: Assuage in context
To ______ investors' concerns about the merger, the company released detailed projections showing that both firms would remain profitable.
Answer: assuage. Reassuring projections are meant to ease worries: assuage. Outstrip (surpass), epitomize (typify) and designate (appoint) don't mean relieve.
Nothing the doctors said could ______ the family's anxiety; only when the test results finally arrived did they begin to relax.
Answer: assuage. Relaxing only later means the doctors' words could not ease the anxiety: assuage. Outstrip, defy and designate don't mean soothe.