assuage

1. V-T If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly. 缓解; 减轻[文学性]

To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe. 为了缓解妻子的悲伤，他带她去欧洲旅游了一趟。

2. V-T If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it. 使满足[文学性]

The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. 他们想方设法获得的肉食使他们得以充饥。