soothe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cause to feel better

   the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation

2. 2
   verb

   To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.

   Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.

3. 3
   verb

   To ease or relieve pain or suffering.

   I am a cider drinker, I drinks it all of the day I am a cider drinker, it soothes all me troubles away

4. 4
   verb

   To assent to; yield to; humour by agreement or concession.

   To be ſhort, a wretched and curſed generation they be; hypocrites, pretending friendſhip, but they can not skill of plaine dealing and franke ſpeech. Rich men they claw, ſooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and despiſe.

5. 5
   verb

   give moral or emotional strength to

6. 6
   verb

   To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.

7. 7
   verb

   To smooth over; render less obnoxious.

8. 8
   verb

   To calm or placate someone or some situation.

Etymology

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. Displaced native Old English frēfran, ġefrēfran (“to comfort, console, soothe”), and partially displaced native Old English stillan, ġestillan (“to calm, become calm, pacify, quieten”) (whence mo…