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calmar — 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.
  • 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.
  • defuse verb To remove the fuse or detonator from an explosive device.
  • hush verb To become quiet, or to make someone or something quiet.
  • mollify verb To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
  • quiet adj Making little or no sound.
  • soothe verb To calm someone down or make a painful or unpleasant feeling less intense.

Senses

calmar is used for these senses in English:

  • allay (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
  • appease To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
  • assuage (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
  • assuage (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
  • calm down (transitive) To cause to become less excited, intense, or angry.
  • defuse (transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
  • hush (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
  • mollify To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.

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.

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