assuage

assuage

英[əˈsweɪdʒ]美[əˈsweɪdʒ]

vt.减轻，缓和，平息，使安静；

第三人称单数：assuages;

过去式：assuaged;

过去分词：assuaged;

现在分词：assuaging;

例句

Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感.

The medicine is used to assuage pain.这种药用来止痛.

She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。

To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。

同义词

vt.

assuage的同义词之：和缓;镇静;平息

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assuage的同义词之：其他释义

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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

缓和，减轻（不快）

If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.

例句

To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。

VERB

满足（需要、欲望）

If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.

例句

The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

英汉词典释义

vt.

减轻；缓和；平息

Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感。The medicine is used to assuage pain.这种药用来止痛。

使安静

充饥；解渴；满足(欲望)

n.

缓和,减轻

n.

减轻…的人

英英词典释义

Verb

1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;

"She managed to mollify the angry customer"

2. satisfy (thirst);

"The cold water quenched his thirst"

3. provide physical relief, as from pain;

"This pill will relieve your headaches"