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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
asswage .
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Examples
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Nothing here excites or asswages emotion; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or wild anxiety.
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The juice of poplar leaves, dropp’d into the ears, asswages the pain; and the buds contus’d, and mix’d with honey, is a good _collyrium_ for the eyes; as the unguent to refrigerate and cause sleep.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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