assuaged

[ uh-sweyjd, uh-sweyzhd ]

adjective

1. made milder or less severe; eased:

   She thought with assuaged grief of her father's tragic death, and how he would have loved to see her now, about to be married.

2. (of hunger, thirst, etc.) satisfied or relieved:

   That’s how it is with desire—it flares up again once the briefly assuaged appetite returns.

3. soothed, calmed, or mollified:

   Volunteering at the clinic gives me an opportunity for social interaction as well as an assuaged conscience because I’m helping out with an important issue.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of assuage ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·as·suaged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of assuaged¹

assuage ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

But what Trump said himself during the campaign has not exactly assuaged people’s fears.

From BBC

When we pulled out our designer gloss to publicly reapply, the thought that I’d suddenly be asked to leave was assuaged.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, any discontentment was quickly assuaged by a knockout encore.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet rather than buying protection, he says that their fears are more often assuaged by a very low-tech tactic - their children telling them simply to not answer or reply to anything.

From BBC

But he’d also assumed that those concerns would be assuaged when he hired personal security for the event.

From Los Angeles Times