Meaning of CALMING
Pronunciation: | | k'âming
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- [n] the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demonds of)
- [adj] causing to become tranquil
- [adj] freeing from fear and anxiety
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| Synonyms: | | appeasement, assuasive, lulling, pacifying, quietening, reassuring, soothing, unalarming |
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| See Also: | | conciliation, mollification, pacification, placation, propitiation, social control | |
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| Related Terms: | | abatement, allayment, alleviation, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, blunting, conciliation, cradling, damping, deadening, demulsion, detente, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, easing, easing of relations, falling-off, gentling, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mediation, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, pacification, pacifying, palliation, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, propitiation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxation of tension, remission, restful, rocking, slackening, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing, United Nations troops |
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