Meaning

• To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.

• To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.

• To smooth over; render less obnoxious.

• To calm or placate someone or some situation.

• To ease or relieve pain or suffering.

• To temporise by assent, concession, flattery, or cajolery.

• To bring comfort or relief.

• To keep in good humour; wheedle; cajole; flatter.

• To prove true; verify; confirm as true.

• To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out.

• To assent to; yield to; humour by agreement or concession.