vaientaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• allay verb To make a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
• 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 a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
2. verb To make something unpleasant less severe.
3. verb To die down and become calm again.
4. verb To combine a metal with a less valuable one, lowering its quality.

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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