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asswage

asswage is the obsolete spelling of assuage.

Meaning of assuage

Verb

assuage (third-person singular simple present assuages, present participle assuaging, simple past and past participle assuaged)

  1. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
    • Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Forms of asswage

third-person singular presentasswages
present participleasswaging
past participleasswaged
pastasswaged

Questions about asswage

What is asswage the obsolete spelling of?
Asswage is the obsolete spelling of assuage.

Words near asswage in the dictionary

  1. assuror
  2. assurors
  3. Assuwa
  4. asswad
  5. asswads
  6. asswage
  7. asswaged
  8. asswages
  9. asswaging
  10. asswagon
  11. asswagons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: asswage (page history and authors); assuage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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