To check the turbulence of (a person); to compel to cease. Obsolete.

transitive. To quieten, silence, or still.

transitive. To make calm or still; to quieten, appease, or assuage. Also: to soothe, coax; to tame, silence.

transitive. To render quiet; to calm, appease.

transitive. To soothe with sounds or caresses; to induce to sleep or to pleasing quiescence.

transitive. To make quiet, quieten (a person, thing, etc.); to soothe, to pacify.

transitive. To make quiet; to put at ease or rest; to calm, soothe, pacify.

transitive. To make calm; to quiet, still, tranquillize, appease, pacify. literal and figurative.

transitive. To make calm or still; to calm, quiet; figurative to assuage, mitigate, soothe, tranquillize.

To make calm or quiet (a physical disturbance, noise, etc.).

To render still, calm, or quiet; to muffle (a drum), silence (a noise). Obsolete.

transitive. To restore from a ruffled state; to free from folds, wrinkles, irregularities, etc.; to make still or settled. Also in figurative…

transitive. To make quiet (in various senses); to calm, to pacify. Also with down.

transitive. To make quiet, to still, to hush.

transitive. To make quiet or less noisy; to bring (a person or animal) into a quiet or calm state.

transitive. To reduce to peace; to calm, still, quieten. Also with up. Now rare (chiefly archaic and regional in later use).