Assuage vs. Abate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Assuage and Abate
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Assuage
Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense
The letter assuaged the fears of most members
Abate
To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen
A program to abate air pollution.
Assuage
To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe
Assuage her grief.
Abate
To put an end to
The court ordered that the nuisance of the wrecked vehicle in the front yard be abated.
Assuage
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
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Abate
To make void
The judge abated the lawsuit.
Assuage
To appease or calm
Assuaged his critics.
Abate
To reduce for some period of time
The town abated the taxes on buildings of historical importance for three years.
Assuage
(transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
Abate
To fall off in degree or intensity; subside
Waiting for the rain to abate.
Assuage
(transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
Abate
To become void.
Assuage
To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Abate
To become reduced for a period of time.
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.
Abate
(transitive)
Assuage
To abate or subside.
The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage.
Abate
To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
Assuage
Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
She managed to mollify the angry customer
Abate
To reduce (something) in amount or size.
Assuage
Satisfy (thirst);
The cold water quenched his thirst
Abate
To lower (something) in price or value.
Assuage
Provide physical relief, as from pain;
This pill will relieve your headaches
Abate
(archaic)
Abate
(law)
Abate
(obsolete)
Abate
(intransitive)
Abate
To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
Abate
To decrease in amount or size.
Abate
To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
Bequests and legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
Abate
Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
Abate
(law)
Abate
(obsolete)
Abate
To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
Abate
(uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
Abate
(uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
Abate
An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.
Abate
To beat down; to overthrow.
The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls.
Abate
To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Abate
To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds.
Abate
To blunt.
To abate the edge of envy.
Abate
To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
She hath abated me of half my train.
Abate
To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
Abate
To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated.
Abate
To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
Abate
Abatement.
Abate
Make less active or intense
Abate
Become less in amount or intensity;
The storm abated
The rain let up after a few hours
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