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beruhigen — 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.
  • 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 ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to 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 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.

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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