If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
例句
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。
VERB
满足（需要、欲望）
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
例句
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
英汉词典释义
vt.
减轻；缓和；平息
Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.和她交谈減轻了我的负罪感。The medicine is used to assuage pain.这种药用来止痛。
英英词典释义
Verb
1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;