verb
- present participle of assuage; calming, soothing, or relieving (pain, anger, thirst, etc.)
Usage: formal or literary
Examples
- The cool water was asswaging her thirst after the long hike.
- He spoke in a gentle tone, asswaging her fears about the upcoming surgery.
- The medication is asswaging the patient's chronic pain.
- She found that music was asswaging her grief during this difficult time.
- The apology helped assuage—or was asswaging—the tension between them.