assuage

Object

• guilt: People often try to assuage the guilt of wrongdoing by doing right.
• grief: It has helped, he says, to assuage the grief.
• fear: No doubt an air of authenticity helped assuage the fears of subscribers worried about publicly associating themselves with fiction.
• anger: Some theories of the atonement render Jesus little more than a whipping boy assuaging the furious anger of the Father.
• feeling: Lee said he hoped the monument and the apology would assuage the bad feelings.
• concern: To secure Moscow's participation in a military campaign against Baghdad, Washington should take limited steps to assuage Russian concerns.

Subject

• fact: My doubts were in part assuaged by the fact that I had already started stronger doses of the same cognitive enhancement drugs.

Preposition: by

• fact: My doubts were in part assuaged by the fact that I had already started stronger doses of the same cognitive enhancement drugs.

Modifying Another Word

• not: The pain of the former is not assuaged by the pleasure of the latter.
• n't: Even the mild grief at the loss of our most regular comedy figure wo n't assuage the extreme pleasure at his resignation.
• somewhat: This action assuaged somewhat the still very strong imperialist current in the Dominion.
• partially: He has partially assuaged the sense of insecurity developed by Margaret Thatcher.
• partly: It spills over into helpless tears, which our lovemaking only partly assuages.
• also: They will also assuage and engender the view that their former partner suffers from a number of moral and personal problems.