verb/su.la.ʒe/
to relieve, soothe; to make oneself feel better, to find relief; to relieve oneself
“Charles Baudelaire, Le Crépuscule du Soir C’est le soir qui soulage / Les esprits.” — It’s the evening which soothes the spirits.
Alteration of Old French suslegier (probably under the influence of solacier (“to solace”) and soulas) from Vulgar Latin *subleviāre, from Latin sublevāre (“to lift up, to raise; to lighten”), from sub- (“from under”) + levō (“to raise, to lift up”).