different between hush vs assuage
hush
English
Etymology
From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??/, /h??/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)
- (intransitive) To become quiet.
- (transitive) To make quiet.
- (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd
- Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
- And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd
- (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
Translations
Noun
hush (uncountable)
- A silence, especially after some noise
- A mining method using water
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Huhs
Jamaican Creole
Etymology
From English hush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??/
- Hyphenation: hush
Interjection
hush
- there, there (calm somebody)
Verb
hush
- be quiet
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assuage
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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
- (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
- Alternative form of aswagen
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