(v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
(v. i.) To abate or subside.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the fact Yellen is even being considered is a feat in itself as central banking is still an old boy’s club, Cooper adds: The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney may have assuaged feminists with his choice of Jane Austen for the ten pound note, but his Monetary Policy Committee is female free.
(2) Their frustration at the failure here cannot be underestimated and it cannot be easily assuaged through more elections.
(3) He had also insisted on construction continuing at Arak, and suggested that international concerns could be assuaged if the work stopped short of putting uranium fuel in the reactor and turning it on.
(4) Nonetheless, he achieved much in his six months in charge: he implemented Oslo II ahead of schedule, assuaged the religious right, bolstered the economy and co-operated with Arafat over the first-ever Palestinian elections.
(5) Initial findings of a limited study of one of the groups suggest a high degree of agreement among parent-members as to the ameliorative effect of this type of therapy, notably its capacity to assuage feelings of isolation.
(6) Moreover, she explains, seeing off the paedo-menace has yielded other improvements: the child protection sessions are part of a council drive to assuage community fears that has been careful to take grass-roots sentiment on board.
(7) Before it is realised, however, pioneers like Amazon will have to assuage the doubts of privacy activists concerned about the impact on civil liberties and of government regulators worried about how flying robots would interact with manned aircraft.
(8) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
(9) Water or diluted fruit juice may be used to assuage thirst, but should not supplant milk even in the later stages of weaning, since they contain no calcium or most other essential micronutrients.
(10) Fahmy's announcement may assuage concerns that the new army-installed government that replaced Morsi's is attempting to stall a return to democratic politics.
(11) While Wednesday's ruling could be seen as a victory for the PDRC, it is unlikely to assuage protesters, who may now turn on the new caretaker prime minister, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Thailand's Institute of Security and International Studies.
(12) This protocol provides a systematic approach to investigation and analysis, prioritizes the need for more in-depth study, and, when necessary, assuages community concerns when a disease cluster is reported.
(13) However, it is unclear if Clinton’s opposition to Arctic drilling, and support of Keystone pipeline, will assuage liberals who accuse her of political maneuvering in the face of a surprisingly successful challenge from Sanders.
(14) The 57-year-old issued a full apology to "patients, relatives and carers [who] found themselves in the position where they not only had terrible things happen to them but the very organisation they looked to for support let them down in the most devastating of ways" – but this did little to assuage the anger felt.
(15) The US Senate's defeat of a background check expansion three weeks ago did nothing to assuage the fears of Missouri Republicans, who pressed forward with their legislation.
(16) But the cash has only gone some way towards assuaging critics, one of whom complained that companies should not be able to "pick and choose" how much tax they wanted to pay.
(17) The limitation will go some way to assuage the concerns of German taxpayers whose frustration at the prospect of having to bail out indebted southern European countries indefinitely has been on the rise.
(18) Acupuncture assuaged the emotional, but not the sensory, response to the painful stimulation.
(19) Both feeding patterns involve assuagement of hunger needs but are dependent on social setting.
(20) The top US commander in Afghanistan rushed to assuage those concerns, saying the deal was not a "zero option" that would leave the country's security forces isolated after 2016, acknowledging critical components such as the fledgling air force would probably get intense and longer-term support.
Salve
Definition:
(interj.) Hail!
(v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
(n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
(n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
(n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
(n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
(v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complete atrio-ventricular block, and salves of ventricular premature beats were the most serious rhythm disturbances.
(2) They include chemical methods, such as suppositories, gels, salves, or foams which contain spermicidal substances, but these can be used only as long as there is no injury to the vagina.
(3) This is not merely too little too late, but it is also a slap in the face of all those who were hoping for some kind of salve on their wounds," said Nitiyanand Jayaraman, of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
(4) But if you will stay and listen to the story, then together we may find salve for our wounded souls.
(5) Lagophthalmos and exposure keratitis resolved or were significantly improved in all patients, and most were able to dispense with eyedrops and salves.
(6) 97 per cent of the patients were discharged from the hospital with a salved limb, the one year patency was 76 per cent and one year limb survival 90 per cent.
(7) A cable car runs from Hopfgarten to the top of the Hohe Salve in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental ski area.
(8) In a family of 9 persons over 3 generations, 6 had incessant polymorphic ventricular extrasystoles, often in salves, resembling unsustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia.
(9) Top-rate Isas pay only 3%, so switching means savers lose little to salve their conscience.
(10) She believed that only total victory would salve her reputation, and no compromise that rewarded aggression could be tolerated.
(11) Though urea creams provided relief from itching in neurodermatitis, their use after treatment of eczema with fat-containing salves caused burning sensations.
(12) They’re actually so beautiful, the kind of movement from one note to the next; they’re like salves,” he says.
(13) Chinese patients preferred external agents (salves, oils, massage, etc.)
(14) For the older customer – sorry, patient – with a less sweet tooth, there are sprays, topical salves and even bath salts.
(15) Larvae were held in either 24-well culture plates with media plus penicillin, streptomycin sulfate, nystatin, and chloramphenicol or in small salve jars on Perlite and media plus the same antibiotics.
(16) The most dangerous player in all of this is Ivanka herself – poised, polished, telegenic and continually trotted out as salve for her father’s explicit sexism.
(17) It has previously been reported as a contact sensitizer from its use as a sun screen in a lip salve.
(18) Use of these salves repeated every second enabled the authors to demonstrate two types of changes in cortical excitability after intermittent photic stimulation: 1. responses which were more frequent and of greater amplitude appearing in the first 3 or 4 seconds after IPS; after paralysis of the animal amplitude and frequency of the responses are augmented.
(19) Wounded in spirit, South Sudan's people need the salve of mutual forgiveness | Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Read more The council’s 15 members demanded Kiir and Machar “genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of military forces from Juba”.
(20) Apple however has little reason to salve these complaints.