assuage

Example Sentences

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Assuage their fears, refrain from escalating, and receive it all—even the concerns you’ve heard a million times by now—with compassion.

From Slate • May 3, 2021

Cauterucci: Assuage your guilt and/or look like you’re doing the right thing to other people.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2021

You, Robert Mellish, To the Blue Anchor hostelry attend him; Assuage his hurts, and bid Bill Richardson Limit his access to the fatal tap.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard

Assuage thy fruitless wrath, and shun The mightier arms of Raghu's son; For Indra's peer in might is he, A foe too strong, my lord, for thee.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Go forth and prosper then, emprizing band; May He, who in the hollow of his hand The ocean holds, and rules the whirlwind's sweep, Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 by Various