Meanings
present singular third person suages · participle present suaging · participle past suaged · past suaged · alternative swage
- obsoletetransitiveTo assuage (someone).
The ſame rough Means that ſvvage the Crovvd, appeaſe / Our Senates raging vvith the Crovvds Diſeaſe.
1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 241 more example
[…] Anon they move / In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mode / Of flutes and soft recorders — such as raised / To height of noblest temper heroes old / Arming to battle, and instead of rage / Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved / With dread of death to fligh or foul retreat; / Nor wanting power to mitigate and suage / With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase / Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain / From mortal or immortal minds.
1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, lines 549–559
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suage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suage
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