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lieventää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • allay verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
  • 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

  1. verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
  2. verb To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
  3. verb To subside, abate, become peaceful.
  4. verb To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

commute — full definition

  1. verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  2. noun The regular journey between home and work.
  3. verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.

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