different between expedite vs assuage

English

Etymology

From Latin exped?tus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expedi? (“bring forward, set right”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k.sp??da?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k.sp??da?t/

Verb

expedite (third-person singular simple present expedites, present participle expediting, simple past and past participle expedited)

1. (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
2. (transitive) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.

Antonyms

• impede
• slow down

Related terms

• expede (obsolete)
• expedience
• expediency
• expedient
• expedition
• expediter
• expeditious
• expeditiously

Translations

Adjective

expedite (comparative more expedite, superlative most expedite)

1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     to make the way plain and expedite

2. Expeditious; quick; prompt.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     nimble and expedite […] in its operation

   • speech in general […] is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts one to another

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Etymology

From exped?tus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expedi? (“liberate, free”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.spe?di?.te?/, [?ks?p??d?i?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.spe?di.te/, [?ksp??d?i?t??]

Adverb

exped?t? (comparative exped?tius, superlative exped?tissim?)

1. freely, without impediment.
2. readily, promptly, quickly

Related terms

• expedi?
• exped?tus

References

• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expedite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

expedite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of expeditar.

English

Alternative forms

• asswage (obsolete)
• tasswage (obsolete, poetic)

Etymology

From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuavi? (“I sweeten, I 'butter up', I calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suavis (“sweet”) + -?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??swe?d?/
• Hyphenation: as?suage
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Verb

assuage (third-person singular simple present assuages, present participle assuaging, simple past and past participle assuaged)

1. (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).

   • Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

   • 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

     I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.

2. (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

Derived terms

• assuagement
• assuager
• unassuaged

Translations

References

• assuage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• assuage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “assuage”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• sausage

Middle English

Verb

assuage

1. Alternative form of aswagen