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assuage - To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe.
Usage: Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.
coagulate - To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.
Synonyms: clot
Usage: The medical students watched blood coagulate as part of their lesson in clotting reactions.
quaff - To swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught.
Usage: They quaffed their ale with gusto.
quail - To shrink back in fear; cower.
Usage: Even the bravest man would quail from the frightening story she just recounted.
