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yatıştırmak — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • lull noun A temporary period of calm or reduced activity.
  • mitigate verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
  • palliate verb To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
  • soothe verb To calm someone down or make a painful or unpleasant feeling less intense.

Senses

yatıştırmak is used for these senses in English:

  • assuage (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
  • assuage (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
  • calm (transitive) To make calm.
  • lull (transitive) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
  • mitigate (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
  • palliate To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate. [from 15th c.]
  • soothe (transitive) To calm or placate someone or some situation.

assuage — full definition

  1. verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
  2. verb To satisfy a need or appetite, such as hunger or thirst.

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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