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Adjective calming has 2 senses
- calming, lulling, quietening - causing to become tranquil
Antonym: alarming (indirect, via unalarming)
- assuasive, calming, pacifying, soothing - freeing from fear and anxiety
Antonyms: unreassuring, worrisome (indirect, via reassuring)
Noun calming has 1 sense
- appeasement, calming - the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demonds of)
--1 is a kind of social control
--1 has particulars:
Verb calm has 4 senses
- calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still - make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"
--1 is one way to comfort, soothe, console, solace
Antonyms: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to calm Sue
- steady, calm, becalm - make steady; "steady yourself"
--2 is one way to stabilize, stabilise
Sample sentences:
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- calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it - become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
--3 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentences:
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- sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise - cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"
--4 is one way to affect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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