Synonyms:
relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
Meaning: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
Synonyms:
quench, slake, allay, assuage
Meaning: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
Synonyms:
pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
Meaning: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
Usage examples
Here the putting out the fire with water, which is an imitation of rain, is reinforced by the influence of the dead man, who, having been burnt to death, will naturally be anxious for the descent of rain to cool his scorched body and assuage his pangs.