All calm synonyms
calm
C c verb calm
- alleviate — If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
- assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
- mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- mollify — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relieve — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- balm — Balm is a sweet-smelling oil that is obtained from some tropical trees and used to make creams that heal wounds or reduce pain.
- becalm — to calm down
- compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- tranquillize — To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- tranquilize — calm sb with drugs
- cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
- cool out — to relax and cool down
- lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- take it easy — relax
- take the edge off — If something takes the edge off a situation, usually an unpleasant one, it weakens its effect or intensity.