| VERB | emotion | soothe, comfort, console, solace | give moral or emotional strength to |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | soothe | cause to feel better |
| Sounds | suw'dh | |
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| Rhymes | smooth | |
| Meaning | Give moral or emotional strength to. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The good news will soothe her; The performance is likely to soothe Sue | |
| Synonyms | comfort, console, solace | |
| Narrower | calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still | make calm or still |
| still, allay, relieve, ease | lessen the intensity of or calm | |
| Spanish | alentar, confortar, consolar, reconfortar, solazar | |
| Catalan | alenar, animar, confortar, consolar, solaçar | |
| Meaning | Cause to feel better. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation" | |
| Broader | relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage | Provide physical relief, as from pain |
| Opposite | irritate | excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame |
| Spanish | aliviar, calmar, tranquilizar | |
| Catalan | calmar, tranquilitzar | |
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