The way to assuage your anger is to get what you want.
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
Keeping her in the loop may be tiring, but it'll go a long way to assuage her concerns and need for control.
In all these areas, Mr Draghi will be tempted to follow his predecessor's playbook or, to assuage German fears about an Italian in charge of the ECB, be yet tougher.
assuage one's hunger, thirst, grief, longing, etc
Reasonable leaders with rational arguments could not assuage the loss.
And because they are human, they assuage their ensuing uncertainty with self-deceptions.
Or do you want to tell them to calm your own nerves, assuage your own guilt, or because you're just bursting to tell someone?
Harry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and grief and that he ought to set out on his mission to find and destroy Horcruxes as soon as possible.
As an envoy, Bush could assuage most of these worries.
When hunger pangs become intolerable, try and assuage them with a relatively bulky food of low energy-density.
Mr Blair's budget proposal does little to resolve these fundamental issues, though the cuts in aid might temporarily assuage voters' anxiety over the eastward expansion.
Will all this assuage the cantankerous markets?
It would also, say some analysts, assuage international criticism that India is not doing enough to confront its carbon emissions.
We just wanted to play games but they didn't want to admit they were simply buying us a toy, but via our youthful vantage point of technical knowledge we helped assuage their guilt.
What shall assuage the unforgotten pain / And teach the unforgetful to forget(Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Nothing can assuage the widow's grief.
He'd walked into a courtyard walled with rammed earth and asked the old man for a drink of water to assuage his thirst.
Anyway, the best way to assuage regional concerns is to construct cooperative agreements and structures between Japan and its neighbors.
To assuage his critics, Mr Abbas ordered an internal inquiry into why the PA did not endorse the report, and backed a Libyan attempt to discuss the document at the Security Council. See article.
Any further changes to assuage shareholder concerns are likely to be announced soon after the ruling.
But she is careful to assuage their concerns.
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