assuages

英 [əˈsweɪdʒɪz]

美 [əˈsweɪdʒɪz]

v.  缓和，减轻(不快)
assuage的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 缓和，减轻（不快）
  If youassuagean unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 满足（需要、欲望）
  If youassuagea need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
  1. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
     他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

双语例句

• It assuages the sense of moral panic that has been the handmaiden of prohibition for a century.
  它减轻了禁令实行一个世纪来一直伴随着的道德恐慌感。