soothe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sothen (“to verify, prove the validity of”), from Old English sōþian (“to verify, prove, confirm, bear witness to”), from Proto-West Germanic *sanþōn, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną (“to prove, certify, acknowledge, testify”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Cognate with Danish sande (“to verify”), Swedish sanna (“to verify”), Icelandic sanna (“to verify”). See also sooth. Displaced Old English frēfran, ġefrēfran (“to comfort, console, soothe”), and partially displaced Old English stillan, ġestillan (“to calm, become calm, pacify, quieten”) (whence modern still).
The semantic evolution of "to verify, prove the validity of" → "to comfort" (first attested in the late 17th century) comes from the notion of assuaging someone by supporting the truth of what they say.
Inflected forms:
form: soothes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soothing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soothed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soothed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sooth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt,
 To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
Yet Wayne Rooney scored at a good time, three minutes after the restart, to soothe any gathering nerves and the night can ultimately be chalked off as one of the finest occasions of Hodgson's 17 months in the job.
gloss: To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
gloss: To calm or placate someone or some situation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ease or relieve pain or suffering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I am a cider drinker, I drinks it all of the day
I am a cider drinker, it soothes all me troubles away
gloss: To temporise by assent, concession, flattery, or cajolery.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To bring comfort or relief.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To keep in good humour; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To prove true; verify; confirm as true.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To assent to; yield to; humour by agreement or concession.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: To be ſhort, a wretched and curſed generation they be; hypocrites, pretending friendſhip, but they can not skill of plaine dealing and franke ſpeech. Rich men they claw, ſooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and despiſe.
Derived words: besoothe
resoothe
soothability
soothable
soother
soothesome
soothing
soothsayer
soothy
unsoothe
unsoothed
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: هَدَّأَ
roman: haddaʔa
lang: Arabic
word: طَمْأَنَ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sakitləşdirmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: успокоявам
roman: uspokojavam
lang: Catalan
word: calmar
lang: Czech
word: konejšit
lang: Czech
word: ukonejšit
lang: Finnish
word: tyynnyttää
lang: French
word: apaiser
lang: French
word: calmer
lang: German
word: besänftigen
lang: German
word: beruhigen
lang: German
word: beschwichtigen
lang: German
word: beschwichtigend wirken
lang: German
word: mildern
lang: Italian
word: placare
lang: Japanese
word: なだめる
lang: Latin
word: pācō
lang: Māori
word: whakanene
lang: Māori
word: mamahu
lang: Norwegian
word: berolige
lang: Portuguese
word: acalmar
lang: Romanian
word: alina
lang: Romanian
word: domoli
lang: Romanian
word: liniști
lang: Romanian
word: potoli
lang: Russian
word: умиротворя́ть
roman: umirotvorjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: умиротвори́ть
roman: umirotvorítʹ
lang: Russian
word: успока́ивать
roman: uspokáivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: успоко́ить
roman: uspokóitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: calmar
lang: Spanish
word: serenar
lang: Turkish
word: sakinleştirmek
lang: Turkish
word: yatıştırmak
lang: Turkish
word: dindirmek