assuaging
v. 減輕( assuage的現在分詞 ); 緩和; 平息; 使安靜
If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe...
為了減輕妻子的悲痛,他帶她去了歐洲旅遊。
She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother.
她裝出一副慈母的樣子只是想要減輕自己的罪惡感。
If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他們把搞到手的肉拿來充飢。