Difference between Appease and Assuage

APPEASE vs ASSUAGE: VERB

Provide physical relief, as from pain
Satisfy (thirst)
Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
To pacify or soothe (someone).
(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

To satisfy, relieve, or assuage.
To calm, soothe, or quiet (someone): : pacify.
To placate or attempt to placate (a threatening nation, for example) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle.
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred)

To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: : relieve.
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
To appease or calm.
To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

To assuage or soothe, as bodily pain; satisfy, as an appetite or desire: as, to appease the smart of a wound, or one's hunger.
To allay; calm, as an excited state of feeling; remove, as a passion or violent emotion.
Gain the good will of
To bring to a state of peace; pacify; quiet by allaying anger, indignation, strife, etc.

Gain the good will of
To abate or subside; grow less: as, “let thin hert assuage,” Gower; “the waters asswaged,”
Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, etc. (see alleviate); to appease, mollify, temper (see lists under alleviate and allay).
To soften, in a figurative sense; allay; mitigate, ease, or lessen, as pain or grief; moderate; appease or pacify, as passion or tumult.

Reassure, Soothe, Allay, Satisfy, Gruntle, Lenify, Gentle, Stay, Conciliate, Quell, Propitiate, Pacify, Assuage, Mollify, Placate

Soothe, Gruntle, Lenify, Gentle, Conciliate, Palliate, Slake, Quench, Relieve, Alleviate, Pacify, Appease, Mollify, Placate, Allay

Accommodate, Defuse, Reassure, Soothe, Allay, Satisfy, Lenify, Gentle, Stay, Conciliate, Quell, Pacify, Assuage, Mollify, Placate

Satisfy, Quell, Dispel, Soothe, Lenify, Gentle, Conciliate, Palliate, Quench, Relieve, Pacify, Appease, Mollify, Placate, Allay

Surely that would be enough to appease him.
Appease the banshee before she takes your life.
ESRI does nothing to appease the growing discontent.
Generally I can appease everyone with favorite dishes.
They are too light to appease his rage.
Huguenots, and served only to appease the pope.
It is very easy to appease Lord Ganesha.
Is it enough to appease the NCAA, and.
Do you have to please and appease them?
Neelam is adorned to appease Lord Shani and Gomed is recommended to appease Rahu.

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What did Augustine finally do to assuage his grief?