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61subdue — I verb abate, allay, beat, beat down, bend, best, break, bring under rule, calm, captivate, capture, choke, conquer, control, crush, curb, deaden, defeat, discipline, discomfit, domare, dominate, dull, enthrall, foil, get the better of, harness,… …
62conciliate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. reconcile; pacify, appease, placate, mollify, propitiate; win, curry favor. See content, forgiveness, pacification. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. placate, appease, pacify; see pacify 1 , satisfy 1 , 3 .… …
63temper — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. temperament, nature, disposition; mood, humor, tone; tantrum, passion, rage; mettle, quality; calmness, composure, equanimity. See irascibility, feeling, intrinsic. v. t. moderate, soften; harden,… …
64sweeten — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To make sweet] Syn. sugar, add sugar, add sweetening, make toothsome, give a sweet flavor to, mull; see also flavor . Ant. sour*, make sour, make bitter. 2. [To make fresh] Syn. purify, freshen, remove salt from, fumigate,… …
65Moderation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Moderation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 moderation moderation lenity &c. 740 Sgm: N 1 temperateness temperateness gentleness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 sobriety sobriety Sgm: N 1 quiet quiet …
66melt — [OE] Melt goes back ultimately to an Indo European *meld , *mold , *mld , denoting ‘softness’, which also produced English mild and Latin mollis ‘soft’ (source of English mollify and mollusc). Its prehistoric Germanic descendant *melt , *malt… …
67mild — [OE] Mild goes back ultimately to Indo European *meld , *mold , *mld , which denoted ‘softness’ and also produced English melt and Latin mollis ‘soft’, source of English mollify and mollusc. From it was derived the Germanic adjective *milthjaz,… …
68mill — [OE] Mill is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to the Indo European base *mel , *mol , *ml , denoting ‘grind’. It includes meal ‘flour’, mollify, mollusc, mould ‘earth’, and (via the extended form *meld , *mold ) melt …
69mollusc — [18] Etymologically, a mollusc is a ‘soft’ creature. The word comes ultimately from Latin molluscus ‘soft’, a derivative of mollis ‘soft’. In classical times it was used as a noun for various ‘soft’ things, such as a sort of thinshelled nut and a …
70mollification — (n.) late 14c., from O.Fr. mollificacion (Mod.Fr. mollification), from M.L. mollificationem (nom. mollificatio), noun of action from pp. stem of mollificare (see MOLLIFY (Cf. mollify)) …
