Assuage vs. Placate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Assuage and Placate
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Assuage
Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense
The letter assuaged the fears of most members
Placate
Make (someone) less angry or hostile
They attempted to placate the students with promises
Assuage
To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe
Assuage her grief.
Placate
To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease.
Assuage
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
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Placate
(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
Assuage
To appease or calm
Assuaged his critics.
Placate
Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
Assuage
(transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
Placate
To appease; to pacify; to concilate.
Assuage
(transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
Placate
Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
She managed to mollify the angry customer
Assuage
To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
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.
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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