soothe
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
give moral or emotional strength to
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- consolation derivation
- consolation derivation
- allayer derivation
- comforter derivation
- solacement derivation
- consolatory derivation
- consolable derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause to feel better
the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation
Types & categories
- relieve hypernym
Related & opposite
- irritate antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | consolation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | consolation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | allayer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | comforter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | solacement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | consolatory |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | consolable |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | still |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | allay |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | irritate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | relieve |