assuage

• vt.落ち着かせる；和らげる；和らげる

接頭辞as-はad-と同じ。 接頭辞as-はad-と同じ。

assuage

assuage: see persuade

assuage (v.)

c. 1300, from Anglo-French assuager, Old French assoagier "soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify," from Vulgar Latin *adsuaviare, from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + suavis "sweet, agreeable" (see sweet (adj.)). For sound development in French, compare deluge from Latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. Related: Assuaged; assuaging.

1. The medicine is used to assuage pain.

この薬は痛みを止めるために使われている。

2.Talking to herhelped to assuage my guilt.

彼女と話をすることで私の罪悪感が軽減されました。

3.To assuage his wife 's grief,he took her on a tour of Europe.

妻の悲しみを和らげるためにヨーロッパ旅行に連れて行った。

4.She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.

彼女は慈母のふりをして自分の罪悪感を軽減しようとしただけだ。

5. " I was only made to assuage my parents'reproductive vanity,'she says bitterly.

「私がこの世に来たのは、私の両親の出産虚栄心を満たすためだけだ」彼女は怒って言った。