złagodzić — meaning in English

English meaning

• assuage verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
• mitigate verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
• palliate verb To ease the symptoms of an illness without curing it.

Senses

złagodzić is used for these senses in English:

• assuage (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
• mitigate (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
• palliate To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate. [from 15th c.]
• palliate (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify. [17th–18th c.]
• water down (idiomatic) To simplify or oversimplify; to make easier; to make less difficult.

assuage — full definition

1. verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
2. verb To satisfy a need or appetite, such as hunger or thirst.

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