assuage

1. V-T If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 緩解; 減輕[文學(xué)性]

To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe. 爲(wèi)了緩解妻子的悲傷，他帶她去歐洲旅遊了一趟。

2. V-T If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. 使?jié)M足[文學(xué)性]

The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. 他們想方設(shè)法獲得的肉食使他們得以充飢。