Alleviate vs. Assuage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Alleviate and Assuage
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Alleviate
Make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe
Measures to alleviate unemployment
He couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it
Assuage
Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense
The letter assuaged the fears of most members
Alleviate
To make (pain, for example) less intense or more bearable
A drug that alleviates cold symptoms.
Assuage
To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe
Assuage her grief.
Alleviate
To lessen or reduce
Alleviate unemployment.
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Assuage
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
Alleviate
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty .
Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
Alleviate his pain
Assuage
To appease or calm
Assuaged his critics.
Alleviate
To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense.
Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds].
Assuage
(transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
Alleviate
To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; - opposed to aggravate.
The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters.
Assuage
(transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
Alleviate
To extenuate; to palliate.
He alleviates his fault by an excuse.
Assuage
To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Alleviate
Provide physical relief, as from pain;
This pill will relieve your headaches
Assuage
To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.
To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
The fount at which the panting mind assuagesHer thirst of knowledge.
Alleviate
Make easier;
You could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge
Assuage
To abate or subside.
The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage.
Assuage
Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
She managed to mollify the angry customer
Assuage
Satisfy (thirst);
The cold water quenched his thirst
Assuage
Provide physical relief, as from pain;
This pill will relieve your headaches
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