transitive. To mitigate, moderate; to reduce the intensity of (a passion, an emotion, etc.). Obsolete.

To quiet, calm (a person's mind); to subdue (agitation, emotion); †reflexive to compose oneself.

figurative. transitive. To make less zealous or ardent; to cause (a person) to lose the heat of excitement, passion, or emotion; to reduce the…

transitive. To make calm or still; to quieten, appease, or assuage. Also: to soothe, coax; to tame, silence.

To pacify, assuage, or allay (anger or displeasure). Also figurative.

To moderate, mitigate, assuage (passion or harshness); to soothe, mollify, appease (the excited person).

transitive. To soothe with sounds or caresses; to induce to sleep or to pleasing quiescence.

transitive. To calm, abate, subdue (an emotion, feeling, fear, etc.).

transitive. To quell the wrath or hostility of, to placate or appease (a person); to satisfy, content.

transitive. To appease, moderate (discord, sorrow, etc.); to pacify, calm (a person). Also reflexive. Cf. mese, v.

To pacify, appease, calm (the excited person).

transitive. To mitigate, assuage, appease, calm (a person's anger, sorrow, etc.); to settle (a dispute).

To reduce to a quiet or gentle condition; to appease, pacify.

transitive. To appease, assuage. Obsolete.

To render stable or firm. catachrestic. To calm (anger), to settle (doubts). Obsolete.

To render stable or firm. To confirm, settle (what is weak or wavering); to restore (health) permanently; to give calmness or steadiness to (the…

transitive. To alleviate the distress or agitation of (a person or animal); to soothe, placate; to mollify. Also (occasionally) intransitive.

transitive. To calm or allay (a strong or hostile feeling); to set at rest (the mind, spirit, etc.).

transitive. To undo, to loosen or untie, to relax (a band, grasp, etc.).

transitive. To quiet, tranquillize, compose (a person, his mind, brain, nerves, etc.); to allay (passion). Also reflexive.

transitive. To settle (one's mind, thoughts, etc.).

transitive. To quell or subdue (a disturbance or strong emotion); to calm, appease; to put (fear, suspicion, etc.) at rest.

transitive. To make calm; to quiet, still, tranquillize, appease, pacify. literal and figurative.

To settle, allay, appease. Obsolete.

transitive. To bring back to mental calm. Obsolete.

transitive. In passive. To become composed or calm again. Obsolete.

transitive. To make serene.

To render (the mind, etc.) calm or tranquil; to soothe.

To calm, pacify, tranquillize (the thoughts, spirits, emotions). Frequently reflexive and in passive.

transitive. To restore to composure; to settle. Also reflexive.

transitive. To make calm or still; to calm, quiet; figurative to assuage, mitigate, soothe, tranquillize.

intransitive. To reverse a previous provocation.

transitive. To calm, pacify.

transitive. To free from strain; to relax. Chiefly figurative.

transitive. To render mild or soft; to soften, soothe.

transitive. To render tranquil; to calm, soothe.

transitive. To put an end to the perplexity, confusion, or affliction of. Also occasionally intr. (cf. perplex, v. 1c).

transitive. To make calm or quiet; to assuage, allay. Obsolete.

transitive. To free (a person) from amazement or confusion. Obsolete. rare.

To lull, calm, assuage, lay at rest, put an end to.

transitive. To render serene.

To make (a person, his mind, etc.) calm and tranquil. †Also, to render free from (anything that perturbs).

transitive. = tranquillize, v. 1.

To render (an animal, a person, the feelings) calm or quiet; to restore to a normally peaceful or tranquil condition; to mollify or appease.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1a.)

transitive. To make serene again.

transitive. To make quiet or less noisy; to bring (a person or animal) into a quiet or calm state.

transitive. To bring peace to; to make calm, pacify.

transitive. To make quiet (in various senses); to calm, to pacify. Also with down.

figurative. (Forms of speech originating in earlier notions of conjuring.) To exorcise, allay, quiet.

transitive. To reduce to peace; to calm, still, quieten. Also with up. Now rare (chiefly archaic and regional in later use).

transitive. To free from fever; to calm.

transitive. To coax; to calm, appease. English regional (northern). Now rare.

intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). With out. To become relaxed, esp. under the influence of a drug. Also (occasionally) transitive (reflexive…