assuager
21shock absorber — Synonyms and related words: alleviative, alleviator, anodyne, assuager, balm, calmative, cushion, dolorifuge, lenitive, mitigator, moderator, modulator, mollifier, pacificator, pacifier, palliative, peacemaker, restraining hand, salve, sedative,… …
22stabilizer — Synonyms and related words: alleviative, alleviator, anodyne, assuager, balance, balance rudder, balance wheel, ballast, balm, calmative, counterbalance, counterweight, cushion, dolorifuge, fin, fixative, flywheel, governor, gyroscope, hairspring …
23tranquilizer — Synonyms and related words: Amytal, Amytal pill, DET, DMT, Demerol, Dolophine, H, LSD, Librium, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mary Jane, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, STP, Seconal, Seconal pill, Serpasil, THC, Thorazine, Tuinal, Tuinal pill,… …
24tranquilizer — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Calmative medicine] Syn. sleeping pill, depressant, sedative, downer*; see drug 2 , medicine 2 . 2. [Pacifier] Syn. mitigator, moderator, temperer, assuager, alleviator, alleviative, palliative, soother, mollifier, calmative,… …
25assuage — (v.) c.1300, from Anglo Fr. assuager, O.Fr. assoagier soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify, from V.L. *adsuaviare, from L. ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + suavis sweet, agreeable (see SWEET (Cf. sweet)). For sound development in French,… …
26balm — n. 1. Ointment, fragrant or precious ointment, unguent. 2. Healing, soothing, mitigant, assuager, anodyne, cure …
27opiate — n 1.Informal. drug, narcotic, depressant, sedative, tranquilizer, soporific, somnifacient, hypnotic, stupefacient; painkiller, analgesic, Pharm. hyoscyamine, Pharm. belladonna; morphine, opium, laudanum; barbiturate, Sl. barbs, Inf. down or… …
28painkiller — n 1. analgesic, aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid, sodium salicylate, buffered aspirin, headache powder; anodyne, paregoric, Inf. pain pill; soporific, hypnotic, barbiturate, Sl. barb, phenobarbital, Pharm. hyoscyamine, belladonna; narcotic, opiate,… …
29assuage — /əˈsweɪdʒ / (say uh swayj) verb (t) (assuaged, assuaging) 1. to make milder or less severe; mitigate; ease: to assuage grief. 2. to appease; satisfy: to assuage appetite; to assuage thirst; to assuage a craving. 3. to mollify; pacify: to assuage… …
30assuage — v.tr. 1 calm or soothe (a person, pain, etc.). 2 appease or relieve (an appetite or desire). Derivatives: assuagement n. assuager n. Etymology: ME f. OF as(s)ouagier ult. f. L suavis sweet …
