CALMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calming mean? 

• CALMING (noun)
  The noun CALMING has 1 sense:

1. the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

  Familiarity information: CALMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

appeasement; calming

Hypernyms ("calming" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calming"):

mollification; pacification (the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined)

conciliation; placation; propitiation (the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity)

 Context examples 

A skin spray composed of Evaux thermal spring water, the emulsifier polysorbate 20, the preservatives phenoxyethanol and chlorphenesin, zinc gluconate, and the moisturizer caprylyl glycol with prophylactic and calming activity.

(Evaux Spring Water-based Topical Spray, NCI Thesaurus)

Marjoram oil is reported to have sedative effects and to be useful in calming asthma and other respiratory symptoms.

(Origanum majorana Leaf Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Chamomile oil is used in various preparations for calming and relaxing effects, especially on the nervous and digestive systems.

(Chamomile Flower Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The finding ultimately may lead to new approaches for calming severe light-induced headaches.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

Calming himself by an effort, he added—A servant has had the nightmare; that is all.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Before this study, it was thought that benzodiazepines worked alone to boost the nerve calming responses of GABAA receptors.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)

She continued by the side of her sister, with little intermission the whole afternoon, calming every fear, satisfying every inquiry of her enfeebled spirits, supplying every succour, and watching almost every look and every breath.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When sprayed directly onto the skin or scalp, this topical spray may have a calming, moisturizing, healing and nurturing effect.

(Evaux Spring Water-based Topical Spray, NCI Thesaurus)

Experiments in mice supported the idea that Shisa7 also plays a role in the calming effects of benzodiazepines.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)