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verb

Soothe v. t. (past & past part. soothed; pres. part. soothing)

To assent to as true. (Obs.)

To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. "Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow." "I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again."

To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows. "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." "Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing."

Synonyms: To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate.

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"Soothe" Quotes from Famous Books

... men who by the sheer force of their personality subdue their church difficulties. They hold the captious in awe. By a sort of magnetic persuasion and lively sense of humor they soothe this one and that, win the regard of the outlying community, attach many new members to the organization, and build up, out of discordant and erstwhile discontented elements, a harmonious and active church. This is the man for these martial times! If there ...

— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

... addressing the ceiling with sad reproach. "Women are born ungrateful, and continue so. Here am I, wasting this delightful afternoon in attempting to soothe a sister's savage breast by sweet strains ...

— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... he questioned, crossly. A score of times he had voiced his impatience, and Cherry was hard pushed to soothe him. ...

— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach

... I shall be nervous when the moment of the bombardment actually arrives. This suspense is not calculated to soothe one's nerves. A few moments since, a salute was fired in honor of General Butler's arrival, when women, children, and servants rushed to the front of the houses, confident of a repetition of the shelling which occurred a month ago ...

— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson

... arose from the possibility of a forcible resistance on the part of Prussia to the appearance of a French army in North Germany. Accordingly, before the invasion began, General Duroc was sent to Berlin to inform the King of the First Consul's intentions, and to soothe any irritation that might be felt at the Prussian Court by assurances of friendship ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

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