Sample Sentences for
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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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)
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    But grief like Patsy suffered is very hard to assuage.  (source)
    assuage = soothe (make feel better)
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    ...their regret is undying and cannot ever wholly be assuaged.  (source)
    assuaged = soothed (relieved)
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    And thus the work proceeds; the two tackles hoisting and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by way of assuaging the general friction.†  (source)
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