assuage
1.VERB 动词缓和，减轻（不快） If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
【语法信息】：V n
【STYLE标签】：LITERARY 文
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。
She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。
2.VERB 动词满足（需要、欲望） If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
【语法信息】：V n
【STYLE标签】：LITERARY 文
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
