Assuage
Assuage ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English asuagen, aswagen, Old French asoagier, asuagier, from assouagier, from Latin ad + suavis sweet. See Sweet.]
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 assuages
Her thirst of knowledge.
Assuage , intransitive verb
To abate or subside. [Archaic]
The waters assuaged.
The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage.