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Alleviate vs. Assuage — What's the Difference?

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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