assuage
/əˈswɑʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.63 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage."
- "to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man"
- "the fount at which the panting mind assuages her thirst of knowledge"
- "1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston 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."
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: aswagen, asuagier, *assuāviō, ad-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈswɑʒ/