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- verb
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- to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify [Princeton Review]
- make (sth) less severe; soothe [Barron]
- to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses); ease [Taisha]
- make sth (pain, desire) less [Nandigam]
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