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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To calm or placate.
  2. v. To ease or relieve (pain, for example).
  3. v. To bring comfort, composure, or relief.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To prove true; verify; confirm as truth.
  2. To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out.
  3. To assent to; yield to; humor by agreement or concession.
  4. To keep in good humor; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
  5. To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquillity; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
  6. To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
  7. To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
  8. Synonyms and
  9. To compose, tranquilize, pacify, ease, alleviate.
  10. To temporize by assent, concession, flattery or cajolery.
  11. To have a comforting or tranquilizing influence.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, obsolete To prove true; verify; confirm as true.
  2. v. transitive, obsolete To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out.
  3. v. transitive, obsolete To assent to; yield to; humour by agreement or concession.
  4. v. transitive To keep in good humour; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
  5. v. transitive To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
  6. v. transitive To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
  7. v. transitive, rare To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
  8. v. transitive To calm or placate someone or some situation.
  9. v. transitive To ease or relieve pain or suffering.
  10. v. intransitive To temporise by assent, concession, flattery, or cajolery.
  11. v. intransitive To bring comfort or relief.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To assent to as true.
  2. v. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
  3. v. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give moral or emotional strength to
  2. v. cause to feel better

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English sothen ("to verify, prove the validity of"), from Old English sōþian ("to verify, prove, confirm, bear witness to"), from Proto-Germanic *sanþōnan (“to prove, certify, acknowledge, testify”), from Proto-Indo-European *sont-, *sent- (“being, true”). Cognate with Danish sande ("to verify"), Swedish sanna ("to verify"), Icelandic sanna ("to verify"), Gothic  (suthjan),  (suthjōn, "to soothe"). See also sooth. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English sothen, to verify, from Old English sōthian, from sōth, true; see es- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Little did you know but when I went back to school (after 30 years) Bramble Berry actually helped "soothe" my soul.”

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  • “At 7 months we did CIO after the non-sleeping, nurse in bed, rocking till our arms fell off, circus of trying to "soothe" an "energetic" boy.”

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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.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2008

  • “MCCULLOUGH: John Quincy Adam's kids mostly 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.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2008

  • “MCCULLOUGH: John Quincy Adams 'kids, most of them went through alcoholism and addiction to different things to kind of soothe the pain of not being able to live up to their father's expectations.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2008

  • “MCCOLLOUGH: John Quincy Adams ` 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.”

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2008

  • “BTW, Dylan has never used the word "soothe" in a song.”

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  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2004

  • “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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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. pacify
  2. soften
  1. mitigate
  2. compose
  1. mollify
  2. allay
  1. tranquilize
  2. assuage
  1. gratify
  2. flatter
  1. calm
  2. comfort

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. relieve
  1. palliate
  1. alleviate
  1. assuage

hyponyms (12)

Words that are more specific

  1. calm
  2. tranquillise
  1. quieten
  2. lull
  1. ease
  2. still
  1. quiet
  2. relieve
  1. calm down
  2. tranquillize
  1. allay
  2. tranquilize

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. satiated
  2. handsewn
  3. moon-drenched
  1. over-burdened
  2. fine-haired
  3. high noon
  1. lack-lustre
  2. sleepy-looking
  3. plant-life
  1. bookworm
  2. sea-foam
  3. half-shut
  1. reposeful
  2. soft-eyed
  3. half-suppressed

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. smooth

reverse dictionary (71)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. allay
  2. quiet
  3. tranquilize
  4. sooth
  5. soothing
  6. lull
  7. instimulate
  8. dulce
  9. embay
  10. demulce
  11. dill
  12. humor
  13. hush
  14. console
  1. croon
  2. coax
  3. calm
  4. calming
  5. gratify
  6. migniardise
  7. mollification
  8. suage
  9. liniment
  10. ataractic
  11. flatteringly
  12. food
  13. lullingly
  14. demulcent
  1. lozenge
  2. lave
  3. unction
  4. mollify
  5. accoy
  6. addulce
  7. attemper
  8. charm
  9. compose
  10. composing
  11. abirritate
  12. tranquilising
  13. tranquilizing
  14. tranquillising
  1. tranquillizing
  2. troche
  3. appease
  4. becalm
  5. cough drop
  6. rock
  7. pastil
  8. pastille
  9. sedative
  10. comfort
  11. smooth
  12. sop
  13. salve
  14. sweeten
  1. gentle
  2. ataraxic
  3. jujube
  4. qualify
  5. solace
  6. stroke
  7. temper
  8. balm
  9. conciliate
  10. coy
  11. curry
  12. moderate
  13. pacify
  14. sleek
  1. supple

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  1. monosyllable

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