Word of the day...

Assuage:

Transitive verb

1: to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) :

  ease <unable to assuage their grief>

2: pacify, quiet <vainly strove … to assuage an implacable foe — Edward Gibbon>

3: to put an end to by satisfying :  appease, quench <assuaging his thirst>

Leo's grammar is a bit off methinks..

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