ASSUAGE \uh-SWAYJ, verb:
1. To make milder or less severe; to reduce the intensity of; to ease; to relieve.
2. To appease; to satisfy.
3. To soothe or calm; to pacify.
When my parents separated, my fathered ASSUAGED the blame by taking us to church, even though before the seperation, we had never once gone as a family.
