Definition Dictionary

To calm anger or satisfy demands, often by making concessions.

Continuing without stopping or interruption.

A reduction in intensity, amount, or severity.

To release someone from blame, responsibility, or an obligation.

To reduce a fear, concern, or other troubling feeling.

To make a difficulty, burden, or discomfort less severe.

Providing a release of strong or pent-up emotions.

To reduce hostility and gain goodwill by persuasion or resolving differences.

To improve or increase a quality, value, or effect.

An increase in intensity, scale, or seriousness.

To make a process or action easier.

Very attentive to details or demanding about cleanliness, taste, or standards.

Showing obvious effort or strain instead of ease or naturalness.

To free someone or something from control, restriction, or confinement.

The ease and speed with which an asset can be traded or converted to money without a substantial loss in value.

To reduce the severity, seriousness, or harmful effect of something.

An appearance of relaxed ease or lack of concern.

Excessively eager to please through flattery and deference.

To calm someone who is angry or upset.

Continuing indefinitely or recurring so often as to seem constant.

Clarity and ease of understanding in expression.

To increase or spread rapidly.

Strengthening or support; in learning, a consequence that increases the likelihood of a behavior.

Excessively pleased or satisfied with oneself.