assuage

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: synonym: relieve.
• transitive verb To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
• transitive verb To appease or calm.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To soften, in a figurative sense; allay; mitigate, ease, or lessen, as pain or grief; moderate; appease or pacify, as passion or tumult.
• Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, etc. (see alleviate); to appease, mollify, temper (see lists under alleviate and allay).
• To abate or subside; grow less: as, “let thin hert assuage,” Gower; “the waters asswaged,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb Archaic To abate or subside.
• transitive verb 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
• verb transitive To pacify or soothe (someone).
• verb intransitive (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb satisfy (thirst)
• verb provide physical relief, as from pain
• verb cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of