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Assuage vs. Abate — What's the Difference?

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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