Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make quiet; soothe; assuage.
- To become quiet; abate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To assuage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
assuage .
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Examples
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If that labor unionizes, it will be more difficult for capital to outsource because the demand for emergency care workers or suage treatment plan maintenance, etc etc will never drop to zero.
Scientific Consensus or Religious War?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Dream that with drink they 'suage their grievous thirst,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various
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Me an 'Lily fit so many battles togetheh in France and on boa'd de ol' iron boat comin 'home' at Ah kain't see no money big enough to 'suage mah grief is we divo'ced.
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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I must needs find some means this matter to 'suage;
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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The lights seemed to dance and move quickly on the outskirts of the town for a few moments afterward, the stream suddenly rippled quite audibly behind them, a few stones loosened themselves from the hillside and splashed into the stream, a heavy wind seemed to suage the branches of the funereal pines, and then the silence fell again, heavier, deadlier than ever.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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The same rough means that 'suage the crowd, appease
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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Try to do some mentalrobics every single day! as-suage verb:: To lessen the intensity of something that pains or distresses.
Braingle 2010
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Try to do some mentalrobics every single day! as-suage verb:: To lessen the intensity of something that pains or distresses.
Braingle 2010
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Try to do some mentalrobics every single day! as-suage verb:: To lessen the intensity of something that pains or distresses.
Braingle 2010
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Try to do some mentalrobics every single day! as-suage verb:: To lessen the intensity of something that pains or distresses.
Braingle 2010
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