Assuage

imp. & p. p. Assuaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Assuaging

1. To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

   Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.

   To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

   The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge.

1. To abate or subside. [Archaic]

   The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage.