tyynnyttää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- appease verb To calm someone down or make them less angry, especially by giving them what they want.
- calm adj Free from anxiety, agitation, or strong emotion; peaceful.
- quell verb To bring a disturbance, rebellion, or strong feeling under control; to suppress it.
- soothe verb To calm someone down or make a painful or unpleasant feeling less intense.
- still adj Not moving; calm and motionless.
- temperate adj Mild, not extreme in temperature or climate.
Senses
tyynnyttää is used for these senses in English:
- appease To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
- calm (transitive) To make calm.
- quell (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. [from 14th c.]
- soothe (transitive) To calm or placate someone or some situation.
- temperate (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate
calm — full definition
- adj Free from anxiety, agitation, or strong emotion; peaceful.
- noun A state of peace, quiet, or absence of disturbance.
- verb To make calm, or to become calm.
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