Verb: soothe soodh
- Cause to feel better
"the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"
- Try to help someone feel less distressed, grieving, or disappointed through sympathetic words or actions
"His friends sootheed him after the loss of his job";
- comfort, console, solace
Derived forms: soothed, soothes, soothing
Type of: act, alleviate, assuage, move, palliate, relieve
Antonym: irritate
Encyclopedia: Soothe