Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To calm or placate.
- v. To ease or relieve (pain, for example).
- v. To bring comfort, composure, or relief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To prove true; verify; confirm as truth.
- To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out.
- To assent to; yield to; humor by agreement or concession.
- To keep in good humor; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
- To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquillity; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
- To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
- To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
- Synonyms and
- To compose, tranquilize, pacify, ease, alleviate.
- To temporize by assent, concession, flattery or cajolery.
- To have a comforting or tranquilizing influence.
Wiktionary
- v. To calm or placate someone or some situation.
- v. To ease or relieve pain or suffering.
- v. To bring comfort or relief.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To assent to as true.
- v. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
- v. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give moral or emotional strength to
- v. cause to feel better
Etymologies
- Middle English sothen, to verify, from Old English sōthian, from sōth, true; see es- in Indo-European roots.
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“MCCULLOUGH: John Quincy Adam's kids, most of them went through alcoholism and addictions to different things to kind of soothe the pain of not being able to live up to their father's expectations.”
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“BTW, Dylan has never used the word "soothe" in a song.”
“And now we hear that Senator Harkin is going to be endorsing Governor Dean, and I think that that may help kind of soothe that little, little bruise there.”
“He got so bad the doctors said he'd be better up to Dr. Balsam's Retreat, where they could kind of soothe him down, and make him think his health was out of order, and get his mind off his writing, but he did have a pretty bad fever up there, an 'ever since he thinks he was editor or somethin' on some paper, and he can tell it off straight as a string.”
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