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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

... events that our characters are formed; but by the neglect or performance of our duties in that state of life, into which the Wisdom of our Heavenly Father has seen fit to call us. To elevate the sufferings, soothe the sorrows, increase the comforts, and enhance the joys of all around us, should be the highest aim of a laudable ambition—and every endeavor should be most assiduously devoted to the accomplishment of these important ...

— The Ladies' Work-Table Book • Anonymous

... has done." So then, having made so great a mistake, she thought the best thing she could do was to seek advice of Leonard at once. She was not without hopes he would tell her to postpone the projected change in her household, and so soothe her offended ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various

... an elephant's neck. That is considered very improper. I threw a stone at the monkey and he jumped from the elephant's neck, went straight up a tree and stayed there. I patted Kari's back and tried to soothe him. Then I took him by the ear and ...

— Kari the Elephant • Dhan Gopal Mukerji

... restore it to him. With swelling heart and quivering lip I carried the wanton insult—my first great wrong—straight to Aunt Judy, who, in her mild way, resented it as a personal outrage to her own feelings, and tried to soothe and console me by assuring me that "it would all rub out when it got dry." Three years later, as I was passing the sibyl's house one morning, her mother met me at the door and handed me an odd volume of Potter's "Antiquities ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various

... an extent that in about an hour the sufferers were not so very much the worse for their adventure. The professor and Mr Burne had lit cigars; Yussuf was enjoying his pipe; and Lawrence alone was without anything to soothe his hunger. ...

— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn

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