soothen

English

Etymology

From sooth (“pleasing, comforting, reassuring”) +‎ -en.

Verb

soothen (third-person singular simple present soothens, present participle soothening, simple past and past participle soothened)

1. (transitive) To make comforted; cause to feel soothed; to ease, relieve, or alleviate
   • 1999, M. L. Augustine, Fort William Calcutta's Crowning Glory: Calcutta's Crowning Glory:

     The cool green foliage around her soothened the eyes of beholders even in the blazing sun.

   • 2006, Pradip Kumar Bose, Health and Society in Bengal:

     These nutrients combine together to soothen the body; and according to Susruta, such a process is attributed to mucus.

   • 2008, Christos Tsagalis, Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams, page 36:

     Since Melitta is honored in the chamber of Persephone, then the grief for her death is significantly soothened.

   • 2011, Reina Khadilkar, Oh! to be a Lady Surgeon, page 101:

     A very close friend of Dad helped me to rent a place large enough to have an inpatient of about ten beds, a good waiting area (patients need to soothen their taut nerves before they see the doctor) and a spacious operation theatre.

   • 2016, Dr. Shiv Kumar, Aroma Therapy:

     For migra[i]nes and headaches drop a few drops in boiling water or use a cold compress and inhale when there is nervous ex[h]austion, wrap a warm towel to soothen tense and agitated nerves.

Anagrams

• one shot, one-shot, oneshot