успока́ивать — meaning in English
uspokaivat
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English meaning
- appease verb To calm someone down or make them less angry, especially by giving them what they want.
- assuage verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
- calm adj Free from anxiety, agitation, or strong emotion; peaceful.
- comfort noun A state of physical ease and freedom from pain or worry.
- console verb To comfort someone who is upset, grieving, or disappointed.
- ease noun The quality of being simple or effortless.
- hush verb To become quiet, or to make someone or something quiet.
- 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.
- propitiate verb To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
- quell verb To bring a disturbance, rebellion, or strong feeling under control; to suppress it.
- quiet adj Making little or no sound.
- soothe verb To calm someone down or make a painful or unpleasant feeling less intense.
- still adj Not moving; calm and motionless.
Senses
успока́ивать is used for these senses in English:
- appease To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
- assuage (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
- calm (transitive) To make calm.
- calm down (transitive) To cause to become less excited, intense, or angry.
- comfort (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
- console (transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
- ease (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- hush (transitive) To make quiet.
assuage — full definition
- verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
- verb To satisfy a need or appetite, such as hunger or thirst.