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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of soothe.

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Examples

  • Johnson's Loins® for $500/lb. Or genetically modified pigs nurtured in Johnson's “perfected” landscape, then ensanguinated in hermetically sealed glass hamlets, their butchers soothed from the horrors of blood and squealing with an enveloping view of Nature.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Johnson's Loins® for $500/lb. Or genetically modified pigs nurtured in Johnson's “perfected” landscape, then ensanguinated in hermetically sealed glass hamlets, their butchers soothed from the horrors of blood and squealing with an enveloping view of Nature.

    Chicken Wing 2007

  • A gentle bubbling fountain soothed my nerves as I gazed across the sparkling blue pool.

    Cabo! 2001

  • A gentle bubbling fountain soothed my nerves as I gazed across the sparkling blue pool.

    Cabo! 2001

  • The reason was, that the longer we was in that solemn, peaceful desert, the more the hurry and fuss got kind of soothed down in us, and the more happier and contented and satisfied we got to feeling, and the more we got to liking the desert, and then loving it.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

  • It kind of soothed me to wear moccasins and throw my biled shirt into the

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • The reason was, that the longer we was in that solemn, peaceful desert, the more the hurry and fuss got kind of soothed down in us, and the more happier and contented and satisfied we got to feeling, and the more we got to liking the desert, and then loving it.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • A change from what? the priests indeed have heretofore thought proper to ascribe to me religious, or rather anti-religious sentiments, of their own fabric, but such as soothed their resentments against the act of Virginia for establishing religious freedom.

    Letters 1760

  • Spain's sale of 5 billion euros of 15-year bonds yesterday may have "soothed" some investor concerns, according to

    Bloomberg 2010

  • Spain's sale of 5 billion euros of 15-year bonds yesterday may have "soothed" some investor concerns, according to

    Bloomberg 2010

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