beruhigen — meaning in English

English meaning

• allay verb To make a strong feeling, such as fear or worry, calmer or less severe.
• calm adj Free from anxiety, agitation, or strong emotion; peaceful.
• compose verb To make up or form the parts of something.
• ease noun The quality of being simple or effortless.
• lull noun A temporary period of calm or reduced activity.
• mollify verb To make someone's worry or distress feel less intense, or to offer them comfort.
• placate verb To calm someone down and ease their anger.
• reassure verb To restore someone's confidence by removing their doubts or fears.
• soothe verb To calm someone down or make a painful or unpleasant feeling less intense.

Senses

beruhigen is used for these senses in English:

• allay (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• calm (transitive) To make calm.
• calm down (transitive) To cause to become less excited, intense, or angry.
• compose To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
• ease (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
• lull (transitive) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
• mollify To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
• pipe down (idiomatic, intransitive) To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.

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.

calm — full definition

1. adj Free from anxiety, agitation, or strong emotion; peaceful.
2. noun A state of peace, quiet, or absence of disturbance.
3. verb To make calm, or to become calm.

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