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Meaning of "assuagement" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSUAGEMENT

assuagement  [əˈsweɪdʒmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSUAGEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Assuagement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ASSUAGEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of assuagement in the English dictionary

The first definition of assuagement in the dictionary is the act of soothing, moderating, or making an unpleasant feeling less severe. Other definition of assuagement is satisfaction of a need or desire; relief. Assuagement is also the act of pacifying; calming.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSUAGEMENT


acknowledgement
ækˈnɒlɪdʒmənt
acknowledgment
əkˈnɒlɪdʒmənt
arrangement
əˈreɪndʒmənt
co-management
kəʊˈmænɪdʒmənt
crisis-management
ˈkraɪsɪs ˈmænɪdʒmənt
discouragement
dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒmənt
disengagement
ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
encouragement
ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒmənt
engagement
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
enlargement
ɪnˈlɑːdʒmənt
impingement
ɪmˈpɪndʒmənt
infringement
ɪnˈfrɪndʒmənt
judgement
ˈdʒʌdʒmənt
judgment
ˈdʒʌdʒmənt
management
ˈmænɪdʒmənt
micromanagement
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌmænɪdʒmənt
middle-management
ˈmɪdəl ˈmænɪdʒmənt
mismanagement
ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt
prejudgment
priːˈdʒʌdʒmənt
rearrangement
ˌriːəˈreɪndʒmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSUAGEMENT

asst
assuage
assuager
Assuan
assuasive
assubjugate
assuefaction
assuetude
assumability
assumable
assumably
assume
assumed
assumed name
assumedly
assumer
assuming
assumingly
assumpsit
assumption

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSUAGEMENT

abonnement
achievement
advertisement
agreement
amusement
announcement
apartment
basement
element
enforcement
implement
improvement
involvement
measurement
movement
placement
replacement
requirement
retirement
statement
supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of assuagement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «assuagement» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSUAGEMENT

Find out the translation of assuagement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of assuagement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «assuagement» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缓和物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apaciguamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

assuagement
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शांति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تلطيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

успокоение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assuagement
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সান্ত্বনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apaisement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Assuagement
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Befriedigung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

assuagement
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

assuagement
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Assuagement
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự an ủi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

assuagement
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शोषण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

assuagement
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assuagement
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

assuagement
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заспокоєння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

assuagement
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

assuagement
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verzachting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

assuagement
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

assuagement
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assuagement

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSUAGEMENT»

The term «assuagement» is regularly used and occupies the 92.206 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSUAGEMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «assuagement» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «assuagement» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about assuagement

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSUAGEMENT»

Discover the use of assuagement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assuagement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Call to Radical Theology
But that is a tragedy releasing an ultimate assuagement that is only possible through tragic destruction, a destruction that is perhaps the purest witness to the Nothing, and yet a witness unveiling the overwhelming power of transfiguration, ...
Thomas J. J. Altizer, Lissa McCullough, 2013
2
Vermeer's Wager: Speculations on Art History, Theory, and ...
If you are troubled, and an encounter with a painting by Velazquez or Poussin eases that trouble, who am I to say that such an assuagement, and the use of art that allows it, are trivial? We might hope that encounters with art will lead to the ...
Ivan Gaskell, 2000
3
The Contraction of England: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered ...
It depended on British assuagement of the concerns of Buganda's prosperous peasantry as well. In the 1920s their discontents with the landlord chiefs with whom the British were principally collaborating pushed the British into promulgating a ...
Donald Anthony Low, 1985
4
International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
Furthermore, a payment for the reparation of incommensurable losses can obviously be justified on a number of grounds which certainly include the assuagement of the injured party's offended sense of justice. Deference to this aspect in ...
René David, 1986
5
The Golden Wheel
Assuagement. You who were once an agony within my heart, A pain so sharp I could not lift my head Or move my lips, are at this day a grief long dead —Only a remembrance delicately bitter. Other Women's Children Why must they gather ...
Julia Cooley Altrocchi, Paul Hemenway Altrocchi, MD, 2007
6
Land and People: Papers in Memory of John G. Evans
11 The construction of barrows in Bronze Age Orkney – an 'assuagement of guilt' ? Jane Downes This paper looks at the relationship between people and land in Bronze Age Orkney as evidenced through cremation burialand barrow ...
Michael J. Allen, Niall Sharples, Terry O'Connor, 2009
7
Leadership Practices, Organizational Commitment, and ...
Table 7 Internal Validity Threats and Assuagement Threat Assuagement given research design History The study, completed through a cross-sectional survey, occurred at a single point in time. Study participants provided their perspective one ...
William Mark Nicholson, 2009
8
The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving
Assuagement, disassuagement and well-being As discussed on page 54 we chose the word assuagement to define the experience of reaching the goal of companionable interaction. We found that nevertheless most readers understood the ...
Dorothy Heard, Brian Lake, 2009
9
Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice
Of a single course is the way to the purification of the beings, to the overcoming of pain and woe, to the assuagement of suffering and ill disposition, to the comprehension of rational truth, to the bearing of direct witness to nibbana, to wit, the ...
Minoru Kiyota, 1991
10
Eclipse of Empire
Assuagement then followed again with the democratisation of the local council, and a plethora of reforms in Uganda's cotton and coffee industries, all of which clearly prevented the further major crisis which followed from reaching flashpoint. 35 ...
D. A. Low, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSUAGEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term assuagement is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Closing Time: Waiting game with Stephen Strasburg, Coco Crisp
With that thin-air assuagement removed from the ledger, this is what's left: 27 IP, 21 H, 3 ER, 6 BB, 21 K. All four of those turns were useful. «Yahoo Sports, May 15»
2
Larry Wilmore Insists 'Thug' Is the New 'N-Word'
MONK: Look to the bigot after the word leaves his lips you will see him enveloped by a lithium haze of sucker and assuagement. But now that ... «NewsBusters, Apr 15»
3
Africa: The world's new
Rwanda ranks first among African countries in terms of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, which include poverty assuagement and ... «Jakarta Post, Apr 15»
4
'Brother, Can You Spare a Brain?'
I am not some bootie call assuagement for your existential terror! He kicked her out. Bad form, Liv. And she knew it. She also realized she could ... «Entertainment Weekly, Mar 15»
5
Revisiting Replacement Players
Financial gain and corporate assuagement took precedence over fundamentals. Second-best would suffice. Loyalty and integrity was all but ... «Baseball Essential, Mar 15»
6
Morocco at the Crossroads: The Arab Spring and Beyond
For the moment, the de facto Makhzanian strategy of containment and the policy of daily patching and assuagement may win time, but with ... «Morocco World News, Mar 15»
7
The Economic War: Not just business as usual
During these years there is a progressive assuagement of the discourse criminalising Chavismo, which is directly proportional to attempts to ... «Venezuelanalysis.com, Feb 15»
8
Intercession in Religion: basis and proofs
Lo! thy prayer is an assuagement for them.” – 9:113: “It is not for the Prophet, and those who believe, to pray for the forgiveness of idolaters ... «MuslimVillage.com, Dec 14»
9
Eli Manning thinks players need to be smart when making social …
If they're not doing that, then they're doing something else — PR, guilt assuagement, exploring new marketing opportunities. But they're not ... «NBCSports.com, Dec 14»
10
Heal Thyself: Taking a Fatal Diagnosis Into His Own Hands
... he'd deflect my questions with vague comments about varying outcomes and everyone being different, or the dubious assuagement that, ... «Men's Journal, Nov 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Assuagement [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/assuagement>. Apr 2024 ».
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