静める — meaning in English

English meaning

• calm adj Free from anxiety, agitation, or strong emotion; peaceful.
• stifle verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.

Senses

静める is used for these senses in English:

• calm (transitive) To make calm.
• stifle (transitive, also, figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.

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.

stifle — full definition

1. verb To suppress or hold back something such as a sound, feeling, or reaction.
2. verb To make breathing difficult, or to smother.
3. noun In horses and other four-legged animals, the joint on the hind leg that corresponds to the human knee.

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