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assuage
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    It was not enough to assuage the pain that Jonas was beginning, now, to know.  (source)
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    Harry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and grief  (source)
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    But with the tentacle came the same delicate fragrance that moved across her with the breeze, and she felt a soft, tingling warmth go all through her that momentarily assuaged her pain.  (source)
    assuaged = soothed
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    What about the fathers who beat their sons for no reason but to assuage their own suffering?  (source)
    assuage = soothe (lessen)
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    When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.  (source)
    assuaged = soothed
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    During the first months of their marriage, he called Celia every night, his gentle voice assuaging her.  (source)
    assuaging = soothing (making something less unpleasant or frightening)
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    In the meantime, whether or not it assuages your grief, I intend to find the man who killed your granddaughter.  (source)
    assuages = soothes (makes less unpleasant or frightening)
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    "I would not have thought it," she said slowly, "had I not seen for myself." "Thought what?" I said. "Seen what?" "That you have so much passion in your body," she said insolently, "that you seek assuagement thus."  (source)
    assuagement = to be soothed
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    Perhaps,' said Bounderby, staring with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, 'you know where your daughter is at the present time!'†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    And I: "Thy true speech fills my heart with good Humility, and great tumour thou assuagest; But who is he, of whom just now thou spakest?"†  (source)
    assuagest = soothe
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou assuagest" in older English, today we say "You assuage."
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    Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr. Bounderby softer than usual towards Mrs. Sparsit, and harder than usual to most other people from his wife downward.†  (source)
    assuagements = things that soothe; or acts of soothing
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    She'd used him to assuage her own guilt.  (source)
    assuage = soothe (make less unpleasant)
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    D'Klass thought that the greed of the Mud People in his kingdom could be assuaged by distributing lavish gifts.  (source)
    assuaged = soothed
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