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Перевод: assuage

[глагол]
успокаивать; смягчать; умиротворять; утолять

Тезаурус:

1. I took against this practice and reflected later that "God Save the people of Wallsend" would have been more appropriate, for few in authority cared much, let alone had the power to assuage the people's meagre needs.
2. It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were, to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or - even worse, much worse - by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in "question time" an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity.
3. Athenian youths had to be sent every three years to assuage the monster, and when Theseus, prince of Athens, grew old enough, he demanded to go and try to slay it.
4. Mr Clarke's undertaking will be seen as a promise to provide more money, if it becomes necessary, in an effort to assuage the doctors' concerns about the contract.
5. Britain pledged herself to keep BAOR, comprising four divisions, and RAF (Germany) on the Continent in order to assuage French fears of German rearmament, which the extended Treaty now authorized.
6. They were the crumbs of comfort the leisured classes craved to assuage the draughty chill of English baronial halls.
7. If a savage element persists, it is the modern savagery of the Blitz which, physically, as a firewatcher, Eliot attempted to assuage.
8. The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians, the media, and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates.
9. In addition to those who shop to assuage feelings of "inner emptiness" (commonly described by sufferers), obsessive spending can also be an aggressive act.
10. Other seem to be trying to assuage a guilt known only to themselves, and a few are out to keep Ali a player, a lure to those who might want to use his name in business; though the marketplace turns away from billboards in decline.
11. The book appeared in the Spring of 1956, and was significantly dedicated to the memory of his father: the memory of whose dying he could not assuage:
12. The US proposal was designed to assuage European, particularly German, ambitions to have more influence in NATO's nuclear forces without jeopardizing American control of the Western nuclear deterrent.
13. Basically they are titbits and are designed to excite the appetite rather than assuage it.