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。