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What is another word for Asswage?

Pronunciation: [ɐswˈɪd͡ʒ] (IPA)

Asswage is a verb that means to ease, lessen, or relieve something. There are a few synonyms for this word, including alleviate, soothe, mitigate, lighten, and appease. Another useful synonym for asswage is calm, which implies a sense of tranquility and serenity. Assuage can also mean to pacify or placate, in which case some synonyms might include mollify, allay, and comfort. Overall, these words all convey the idea of making something less difficult or intense, and they can be useful when trying to communicate a sense of soothing relief or comfort.
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What are the hypernyms for Asswage?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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Then I being stricken with great pleasure, and desirous to embrace him, could not thoroughly Asswage my delight, but alas by evill ill chance the oyle of the lampe fortuned to fall on his shoulder which caused him to awake, and seeing me armed with fire and weapons, gan say, How darest thou be so bold to doe so great a mischiefe?
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
Fear seiz'd the tim'rous Naiads, all aghast Their boding spirits at the omen sink, Their eyes they wildly on each other cast, And meditate to gain the farther brink; When in I plung'd, resolving to Asswage In the cool gulph love's importuning rage.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber
For whyle they ar yonge fereful and tender of age Theyre vyce and foly is easy to Asswage.
"The Ship of Fools, Volume 1"
Sebastian Brandt

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