assuaging

Definitions

Making an unpleasant feeling less intense.

Satisfying or appeasing an appetite or desire.

Examples

The soothing music played a significant role in assuaging her anxiety before the big presentation.

He spent the afternoon assuaging his guilt by volunteering at the local animal shelter.

Synonyms

alleviating soothing mitigating relieving calming pacifying mollifying

Antonyms

aggravating exacerbating intensifying worsening provoking inflaming distressing