Meaning and example

cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

She managed to mollify the angry customer

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 0.983 places assuage in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 84.1% of people in the source dataset.

Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.

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