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
- verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
- verb To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
- verb To subside, abate, become peaceful.
- verb To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
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.