Definition of Soothe

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Soothe

To assent to as true.

To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.

To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.

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Soothe Quotations

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Maria Callas

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
Pierre Corneille

I like music to soothe me.
Helen Reddy

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Charlotte Smith

Soothe Translations

soothe in German is beruhigen, lindern, lindere
soothe in Italian is calmare
soothe in Spanish is aquietar
soothe in Swedish is lindra, lugna

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