lieventää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- allay verb To make a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
- commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
- dull adj Boring; lacking interest or excitement.
- mitigate verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
- remit verb To send money, especially as a payment.
Senses
lieventää is used for these senses in English:
- allay (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
- dull (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- mitigate (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
- remit (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
allay — full definition
- verb To make a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
- verb To make something unpleasant less severe.
- verb To die down and become calm again.
- verb To combine a metal with a less valuable one, lowering its quality.
commute — full definition
- verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
- noun The regular journey between home and work.
- verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.
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