assuage
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To make an unpleasant feeling less intense; to soothe or relieve.
A full apology did little to assuage the family's anger.
Business verb
To ease or lessen someone's anger, distress, or concerns.
A written apology did little to assuage the client's fury over the botched rollout.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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