vaientaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• allay verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• hush verb To become quiet, or to make someone or something quiet.
• mute adj Unable or unwilling to speak; silent.
• silence noun Complete absence of sound.

Senses

vaientaa is used for these senses in English:

• allay (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• choke off (idiomatic, transitive) To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.
• mute (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
• mute (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
• shut up (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
• silence (transitive) To make (someone or something) silent.
• silence (transitive) To suppress criticism, etc.

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.

hush — full definition

1. verb To become quiet, or to make someone or something quiet.
2. noun A sudden silence, especially after noise.

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