English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Assortment (n.)

A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

Assortment (n.)

A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.

Assortment (n.)

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

Assot (a.)

Dazed; foolish; infatuated.

Assot (v. t.)

To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.

Assuage (v. i.)

To abate or subside.

Assuage (v. t.)

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

Assuaged (imp. & p. p.)

of Assuage

Assuagement (n.)

Mitigation; abatement.

Assuager (n.)

One who, or that which, assuages.

Assuaging (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Assuage

Assuasive (a.)

Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.

Assubjugate (v. t.)

To bring into subjection.

Assuefaction (n.)

The act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation.

Assuetude (n.)

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.

Assumable (a.)

That may be assumed.

Assumably (adv.)

By way of assumption.

Assume (v. i.)

To undertake, as by a promise.

Assume (v. t.)

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

Assume (v. t.)

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.