ASSUAGE, ASSUAGING
NOUNS
1541 ► LENITION an assuaging, a mitigation, alleviation → obs. rare
1623 ► LENIMENT an assuaging, appeasing → obs. rare
1640 ► JULEP something to cool or assuage the heat of passion, etc.
VERBS
1175 ► KEEL to assuage, to mitigate, to lessen → obs.
1250 ► EATHE to assuage, to lighten, to alleviate → obs. rare
1568 ► LENIFY to assuage or sooth pain, suffering, etc. → rare
1577 ► SALVE to assuage, to soothe, to mitigate → obs.
1589 ► SMOOTH to allay, assuage, mitigate the force of trouble, etc.
1613 ► ALLEVATE to assuage, ease, comfort, alleviate → obs. rare
1613 ► BECALM to assuage, to mitigate, to soothe, to tranquillize
1641 ► ASSOPIATE to assuage, to lull, to calm; to lay at rest, to put an end to → obs. rare
1655 ► SMOOTHEN to assuage, to mollify, to tone down a passion, etc.; to reduce the harshness or violence of something
1775 ► DILL to assuage, to soothe; to allay, to deaden or take away pain; to still, to deaden sound; to lull a child to sleep; to render insensible by an anaesthetic → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1781 ► DAVE to assuage, to mitigate, to relieve; to soothe → Eng. dial.