assuagement
11assuagement — as·suage·ment …
12assuagement — noun the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief • Syn: ↑relief, ↑alleviation • Derivationally related forms: ↑assuage, ↑alleviate (for: ↑ …
13assuage — assuagement, n. assuager, n. /euh swayj , euh swayzh /, v.t., assuaged, assuaging. 1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one s grief; to assuage one s pain. 2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one s… …
14relief — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. comfort, alleviation (see relief); assistance, welfare, aid; substitution, substitute; projection, convexity. II Alleviation Nouns 1. relief, deliverance, easement, softening, alleviation,… …
15moderation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Keeping within limits Nouns 1. moderation, moderateness, temperance, continence, temperateness, gentleness; self restraint, self control, asceticism, abstinence; teetotalism, soberness, sobriety; quiet,… …
16alleviation — noun 1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief • Syn: ↑relief, ↑assuagement • Derivationally related forms: ↑assuage (for: ↑assuagement), ↑ …
17assuage — transitive verb (assuaged; assuaging) Etymology: Middle English aswagen, from Anglo French asuager, from Vulgar Latin *assuaviare, from Latin ad + suavis sweet more at sweet Date: 14th century 1. to lessen the intensity of (something that pains… …
18relief — relief1 reliefless, adj. /ri leef /, n. 1. alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc. 2. a means or thing that relieves pain, distress, anxiety, etc. 3. money, food, or other help given to those in… …
19relief — re·lief n: redress, assistance, or protection given by law esp. from a court should state what relief the plaintiff seeks: as a: release from obligation or duty relief from judgment b: an order from a court granting a particular remedy (as return …
20mitigation — I noun abatement, abridgment, adjustment, alleviation, assuagement, attenuation, comforting, decrease, diminishment, diminution, easing, lessening, levamentum, levatio, lightening, mitigatio, moderation, palliation, reduction, relaxation, relief …
