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Verb gentle has 3 senses
- pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
--1 is one way to calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- ennoble, gentle, entitle - give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
--2 is one way to promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- gentle - stroke soothingly
--3 is one way to pet
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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