THESAURUS
United Nations troops, abatement, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, calm, calmant, calmative, calming, cathartic, cleansing, comforting, conciliation, conciliatory, cradling, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, depressant, detente, diminishment, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, easing of relations, emollient, falling-off, gentling, hushing, hypnotic, irenic, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lubricant, lubricating, lubricational, lubricative, lulling, mediation, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, modulation, mollification, mollifying, narcotic, numbing, pacific, pacification, pacificatory, pacifying, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, paregoric, peace-keeping force, peaceful, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, placative, placatory, propitiation, propitiative, propitiatory, purgative, quiet, quietening, quieting, reconciliatory, reduction, relaxation, relaxation of tension, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, restful, rocking, salving, sedative, serene, slackening, sleep-inducing, soft, softening, somnifacient, somniferous, soothful, soporific, stilling, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing
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Relief
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relief, deliverance, refreshment, easement, softening, alleviation, mitigation, palliation,
soothing, lullaby, solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement, lenitive, restorative, cushion, crumb of comfort, balm in Gilead, relieving, consolatory,
soothing, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, lenitive, palliative, anodyne, curative, here comes a man of comfort,
relief, deliverance, refreshment, easement, softening, alleviation, mitigation, palliation,
soothing, lullaby, solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement, lenitive, restorative, cushion, crumb of comfort, balm in Gilead, relieving, consolatory,
soothing, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, lenitive, palliative, anodyne, curative, here comes a man of comfort.
Faintness
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faintness, faint sound, whisper, breath, undertone, underbreath, murmur, hum, susurration, tinkle, still small voice, hoarseness, raucity, inaudible, scarcely audible, just audible, low, dull, stifled, muffled, hoarse, husky, gentle, soft, faint, floating, purling, flowing, whispered, liquid,
soothing, dulcet, susurrant, susurrous, in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce, between the teeth, aside, piano, pianissimo, d la sourdine, out of earshot inaudibly, (ii) SPECIFIC SOUNDS.
