Assuages [verb]

And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it.

The water, to which were added a few drops of primus alcohol, helped to assuage our thirst.

Anything,—anything to assuage in him that sense of ineptitude, of being ignored, a titled nonentity!

A growing thirst for beauty has come upon the city, and architects are earnestly studying how to assuage it.

Home is the sphere of the deepest sorrows; the highest consolation of religion should assuage its griefs.

He knew the voice of birds, how fires to mitigate, assuage and quench; sorrows to allay.

But I knew nothing that might assuage it; and I told him once more that both of us should be leaving the office at once.

Grated turnips, mixed with horse-radish, for the table, will assuage one's grief for one's grandmother.

If she but knew with what honor I was received, would not the thought go far to assuage the grief our separation cost her?

It was as well I should think so, and it served to soften the grief and assuage the intensity of the sorrow the event caused me.