assuaged是什么意思？

assuaged

• v. 减轻( assuage的过去式和过去分词 )，缓和，平息，使安静；

例句

• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. 他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  缓和，减轻（不快）
  If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
  例句
  To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe... 为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。 She was just trying to assuage her guilt by playing the devoted mother. 她装出一副慈母的样子只是想要减轻自己的罪恶感。
• VERB
  满足（需要、欲望）
  If you assuage a need or desire for something, you satisfy it.
  例句
  The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger. 他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。