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Not even a nanosecond passes before my guilt has been fully assuaged.*
*Pretty good word eh?
?verb (used with object), -suaged, -suag?ing.
1.to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
2.to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
3.to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
[Origin: 1250?1300; ME aswagen < OF asouagier < VL *assuāviāre, equiv. to L as- as- + -suāviāre, v. deriv. of L suāvis agreeable to the taste, pleasant (cf. suave; akin to sweet)
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?Related forms
as?suage?ment, noun
as?suag?er, noun
?Synonyms 1. alleviate, lessen.
?Antonyms intensify.
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