assuagement
1Assuagement — As*suage ment, n. [OF. assouagement, asuagement.] Mitigation; abatement. [1913 Webster] …
2assuagement — index mitigation, moderation, mollification, relief (release), remission Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3assuagement — assuage ► VERB 1) make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. 2) satisfy (an appetite or desire). DERIVATIVES assuagement noun. ORIGIN Old French assouagier, from Latin suavis sweet …
4assuagement — noun see assuage …
5assuagement — See assuage. * * * …
6assuagement — noun a) The action of assuaging; appeasement. b) The condition of being assuaged …
7assuagement — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Freedom, especially from pain: alleviation, ease, mitigation, palliation, relief. See INCREASE …
8assuagement — n. appeasement; act of soothing …
9assuagement — n. Mitigation, pacification, easing, abatement. See preceding verb, and alleviation …
10assuagement — n 1. relief, easing, easement, letup, respite, remission; abatement, mitigation, alleviation, palliation; softening, mollification, soothing, comfort; sedative, tranquilizer, alleviative, palliative, lenitive, balm, Med. calmative, anodyne, Med.… …
