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Assuage vs. Placate — What's the Difference?

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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