soothe
Meaning
- To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
- To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
- To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
- To calm or placate someone or some situation.
- To ease or relieve pain or suffering.
- To temporise by assent, concession, flattery, or cajolery.
- To bring comfort or relief.
- To keep in good humour; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
- (obsolete) To prove true; verify; confirm as true.
- (obsolete) To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out.
- (obsolete) To assent to; yield to; humour by agreement or concession.
Synonyms
conciliate
quiten
make easy
make peaceful
make silent
shoot dead
bring to an end
set at ease
make pleasant
self-composed
make drowsy
make content
becalm
commiserate with
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/suːð/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English sothen (“to verify, prove the validity of”), from Old English sōþian (“to verify, prove, confirm, bear witness to”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþōn, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną (“to prove, certify, acknowledge, testify”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Cognate with Danish sande (“to verify”), Swedish sanna (“to verify”), Icelandic sanna (“to verify”). See also sooth.
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