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assuage

/əˈsweɪdʒ/C2

缓和 / 抚平 / 减轻 (v.)

书面及正式口语词, 常用于 `assuage fears/anger/guilt`（安抚恐惧/平息怒火/减轻愧疚）。这里指平息海蛇大人的怨气。

The breach between your houses has not narrowed since I last spoke of it.

It would do much to assuage Lord Corlys of any slights real... or imagined.

We must pray, of course, that Laenor survives the fighting in the Stepstones.