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Soothe   /suð/   Listen
Soothe

verb
(past & past part. soothed; pres. part. soothing)
1.
Give moral or emotional strength to.  Synonyms: comfort, console, solace.
2.
Cause to feel better.  Antonym: irritate.






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"Soothe" Quotes from Famous Books



... stand it under the united weight of 'leven full-sized females, most two ton of 'em, amidst more'n forty-four nervous sobs, for they would naterally gin more'n two apiece. In sickness now, if they wanted to soothe his achin' brow, and of course they would all want to, and have the right to. But how could twenty-two hands rest on that one small fore-top? Sixty-six rubs at the least figger, for if they stroked his forehead ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

... Northe Wynde sweeps ye snowe & Icyclles hange all belowe, Then, for soothe, Olde Winter, he Letts ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles

... etc., For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me. ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... into a flood of tears and sank into a chair. And Despard stood, not daring even to soothe her, for fear lest in that vehement convulsion of his soul all his self-command should give ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille

... her again"—her tone grew indistinct as she ceased to speak; and leaning her face upon Lizzie's shoulder, a burst of tears and choking sobs relieved her. Poor Sue—and poor Mary! It would not have been so hard could she have watched by her sister's bedside and aided to soothe the pain and the fear of the dear little one who had from the time of her birth been Mary's ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various


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