v. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"

v. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"

v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

v. make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"

v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"

v. restrain or temper

v. make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room"

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

v. make less active or intense

v. make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"

v. give or apply (medications)

v. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

v. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"

v. become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

v. make less rigid or softer

v. terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"

v. make or leave a mark on; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"

v. substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"

v. support and strengthen; "bolster morale"

v. provide relief for; "remedy his illness"

v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"

v. become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."

v. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"

v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

v. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

v. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

v. stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

v. terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

v. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

v. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"

v. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

v. become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

v. make peace with

v. fill or meet a want or need

v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

v. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"

v. support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace; "brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel"

v. restrain or temper

v. lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"

v. make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

v. fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"

v. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

v. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

v. agitate the air

v. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"