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Borrowed from French assoupir, re-Latinized from Old French assouvir, from Vulgar Latin *assōpīre, from Latin sōpīre (to put to sleep).

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assopìre (first-person singular present assopìsco, first-person singular past historic assopìi, past participle assopìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to make sleepy, to make drowsy
  2. (transitive, figurative) to soothe, to calm, to mitigate

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