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What does assuage mean?

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  1. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  2. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
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Let me now assuage the fear of theory by pointing out that there are theories which actually threaten or ignore the literariness of literature.
Perhaps, he is seeking revenge, or perhaps, he is simply looking to assuage the pain.
But, not a drop of empyrean manna falls on my parched lips to assuage the thirst of aeons.
Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures.
In buying their children accommodations to assuage their own anxiety, parents are actually locking their kids into fragility.
Why should we be forced to pay million-pound wages to assuage the egos of these egomaniacs, we cry?

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