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assuagingverbpresent participle of assuage to make more bearable or less severea mother cooing to her toddler and assuaging his fear of the dark allaying, alleviating, easing, helping, mitigating, mollifying, palliating, relieving, soothing abating, lightening, moderating, softening, temperingcuring, healing, remedyingamending, correcting, emending, fixing, mending, rectifying, reforming, repairingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining aggravating, exacerbating harming, hurting, impairing, injuringheightening, intensifying, sharpening to put a complete end to (a physical need or desire)that huge meal certainly assuaged my hunger quenching, satiating, sating, satisfying, slaking catering (to), gratifying, humoring, indulgingalleviating, lightening, relievingcloying, saturating, surfeiting arousing, exciting, piquing, stimulatingtantalizing, teasing to lessen the anger or agitation ofnothing would assuage the angry parent except the prompt dismissal of the teacher who had used corporal punishment without authorization appeasing, conciliating, disarming, gentling, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating calming, comforting, consoling, contenting, hushing, quieting, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)endearing (to), ingratiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasingadulating, blarneying, flattering, overpraising, soft-soapingquenching, satiating, sating, satisfyingcatering (to), humoring, indulgingblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingbabying, coddling, mollycoddling, pampering, spoilingdulcifying, sweetening angering, enraging, incensing, inflaming(also enflaming), infuriating, iring, maddening, outraging aggravating, annoying, antagonizing, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, crossing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, piquing, putting out, rankling, riling, roiling, ruffling, vexingprovoking, rousingharassing, harrying, persecuting, pesteringagitating, discomforting, distressing, disturbing, fretting, perturbing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, offending, slighting |