Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to assuage
Participle: assuaged
Gerund: assuaging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | assuage |
| you | assuage |
| he;she;it | assuages |
| we | assuage |
| you | assuage |
| they | assuage |
Perfect
| I | have assuaged |
| you | have assuaged |
| he;she;it | has assuaged |
| we | have assuaged |
| you | have assuaged |
| they | have assuaged |
Past
| I | assuaged |
| you | assuaged |
| he;she;it | assuaged |
| we | assuaged |
| you | assuaged |
| they | assuaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had assuaged |
| you | had assuaged |
| he;she;it | had assuaged |
| we | had assuaged |
| you | had assuaged |
| they | had assuaged |
Future
| I | will assuage |
| you | will assuage |
| he;she;it | will assuage |
| we | will assuage |
| you | will assuage |
| they | will assuage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have assuaged |
| you | will have assuaged |
| he;she;it | will have assuaged |
| we | will have assuaged |
| you | will have assuaged |
| they | will have assuaged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | assuage |
| you | assuage |
| he;she;it | assuage |
| we | assuage |
| you | assuage |
| they | assuage |
Perfect
| I | have assuaged |
| you | have assuaged |
| he;she;it | have assuaged |
| we | have assuaged |
| you | have assuaged |
| they | have assuaged |
Imperfect
| I | assuaged |
| you | assuaged |
| he;she;it | assuaged |
| we | assuaged |
| you | assuaged |
| they | assuaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had assuaged |
| you | had assuaged |
| he;she;it | had assuaged |
| we | had assuaged |
| you | had assuaged |
| they | had assuaged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would assuage |
| you | would assuage |
| he;she;it | would assuage |
| we | would assuage |
| you | would assuage |
| they | would assuage |
Perfect
| I | would have assuaged |
| you | would have assuaged |
| he;she;it | would have assuaged |
| we | would have assuaged |
| you | would have assuaged |
| they | would have assuaged |
Imperative
| you | assuage |
| we | Let's assuage |
| you | assuage |
Verbs conjugated like 'assuage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'assuage'
asswage,
assiege,
assrape,
assume,
assure,
massage,
passage,
suage,
abjudge,
absume,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- diminish in force or intensity
- abate, alleviate, decline, ebb, mitigate, relax, subside, temper, wane
- provide relief
- pacify
- alleviate
- mitigate, lessen, relieve, soothe, ease, palliate, moderate
- satisfy
- surfeit, appease, fill, satiate, slake, gratify, indulge, allay
- pacify
- calm, quiet, mollify, still, soften, subdue, compose
Antonyms
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- allay, appease, beguile, bewitch, calm, captivate, charm, comfort, conciliate, console, defuse, disarm, enchant, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, relieve, settle, soothe, enrage
- alleviate
- intensify, increase, enhance, augment
- pacify
- antagonize, irritate, anger, perturb
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuāviō (“to sweeten, to butter up, to calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (“sweet”) + -iō. See: Middle English '
aswagen'.
Sample Sentences
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Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. [1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man [1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:]
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the fount at which the panting mind assuages
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her thirst of knowledge [1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CX:]
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1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
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Jaurès's ambition was not to intensify but to assuage conflicts, antagonisms, and enmity of every kind: the fundamental ideas of Marxism, he believed, did not signify a breach of historical continuity but appealed to the deepest moral instincts of mankind. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 116:]