Assuage: alternatives and connections

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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To fill up; to make full or complete.

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.

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In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

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Alt. of Tranquillize

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To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotio…

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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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To assent to as true.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Taken.

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To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or o…

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To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

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Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

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To grunt; to grunt repeatedly.

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To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

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To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.

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To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify…

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Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

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Same as Placard, 4 & 5.

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To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.

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