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121relaxing — Synonyms and related words: abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, blunting, chastening, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushioned, cushioning, cushiony, cushy, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent,… …
122sedative — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Finn, allaying, anodyne, balm, barbiturate, calmant, calmative, calming, depressant, depressing, downer, hypnotic, lenitive, narcotic, opiate, pacifier, relaxing, sleep inducing, sleeping, sleeping pill,… …
123softening — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, allowance, altering, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive …
124subduing — Synonyms and related words: Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, ascendancy, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beating, benumbing, blunting, cathartic,… …
125tempering — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, ability, aging, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, arteriosclerosis, assuagement, assuaging, atherosclerosis, background, blaseness, blunting, calcification, callusing, calming,… …
126GORDON, GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE — born at Woolwich, son of an artillery officer; entered the Royal Engineers; served in the Crimea as an officer in that department, and was, after the war, employed in defining the boundaries of Asiatic Turkey and Russia; being employed in 1860 …
127SOLYMAN II — surnamed THE MAGNIFICENT the tenth and greatest of the Ottoman sultans, the son and successor of Selim I.; succeeded his father at 24; set himself at once to reform abuses and place the internal administration on a strict basis, and after… …
128WISEMAN, NICHOLAS — cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, born at Seville, of Irish parents; studied at a Roman Catholic college near Durham and the English college at Rome, of which he became rector; lectured in London in 1836 on the Doctrines… …
