assuage

Meaning

Verb

• To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
• To pacify or soothe (someone).
• To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Origin

• From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier ("to appease, to calm"), from Vulgar Latin *assuaviō ("I sweeten, I 'butter up', I calm"), derived from Latin ad- + suavis + -ō.