assopire

Meaning

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

Concepts

put to sleep

rest on one’s laurels

soothe

Synonyms

sopire

placare

addolcire

ammollire

blandire

lenire

mitigare

sedare

disacerbare

calmare

molcere

Translations

assoupir

amodorrarse

tranquilitzar

beruhigen

betäuben

einschläfern

κατευνάζω

καταπραΰνω

μαλακώνω

apaiser

endormir

endormir

acalmar

adormecer

calmar

Etymology

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