Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who assuages or allays; that which mitigates or abates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, assuages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who or something which
assuages .
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Examples
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But overall, the best post-Harry Potter jones-assuager I've read so far.
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But overall, the best post-Harry Potter jones-assuager I've read so far.
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This entire report is simply a multi-million dollar guilt assuager for Bud Selig.
Is Today Mark McGwire’s Best Day in Years? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Everybody expected his city friends to run down to the camp, and be called upon to act as an assuager of thirst.
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Although the necessary affairs of life are, after all, the great assuager of sorrow, yet there are also cases where the heart persists in rejecting the consolation brought by time, and in clinging to the memory of that which it loved.
Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Pole) were eloquent, found kinship with her own unquiet thoughts, and companionship is a notorious assuager of griefs.
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