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SOOTHED

Definition: SOOTHED

SOOTHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Soothe

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SOOTHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Crosswords: SOOTHED

Etymologies containing "SOOTHED": soothe. (references)

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Modern Usage: SOOTHED

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: SOOTHED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Skipperena soothed Pauline when she wept, taught her the swiftest ways of separating the ghur from the galus, and protected her fiercely. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: SOOTHED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This walk soothed him and excited him at the same time.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma soothed him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SOOTHED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Is soothed by your voice. (references)

Economic History

Korea

Short-term interest rates remain low at around 5% and inflation at 2.3% remained subdued throughout 2000. Inflation for 2001 is expected to be around 4%. The spread between short-term money (the overnight call rate) and long-term money (the benchmark 3-year corporate bond rate) fell from its 400-plus basis points high in 2000 to about 200-basis points in May 2001. For the sake of market stability, the Bank of Korea (BOK) maintained until January 2000 its target for the overnight call rate at the comparatively low level of 4.75%. However, the BOK decided to raise its target rate by 25-basis points to 5.0% in February 2000, having judged that market unrest related to the Daewoo bankruptcy had been soothed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SOOTHED

"SOOTHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 71.52% of the time. "SOOTHED" is used about 151 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)71.52%10831,306
Lexical Verb (past participle)27.15%4153,521
Adjective (general or positive)1.32%2245,945
                    Total100.00%151N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SOOTHED

Expression using "SOOTHED": be soothed. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SOOTHED

Language Translations for "SOOTHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zbutet (attenuate, be soothed, mellow, melt, relent, tone down). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

安慰 (Comforted, reassuringly, soothe, soothing). (various references)

   

German

  

linderte. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

달래". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oothedsay

   

Romanian

  

odihnit (composed, fresh, recreated, refreshed, relaxed, rested, tranquil). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

успокаивать успокоенный (tranquilized). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SOOTHED

Derivations

Words ending with "SOOTHED": besoothed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SOOTHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foothed, ooohed, sgothan, sloothe, sooted, soothen, soothey, Suthee, zoanthid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SOOTHED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SOOTHED" (pronounced suw"thd)
3-uw" th dsmoothed, toothed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SOOTHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: hooted, hosted, shooed, sooted, soothe.

-2 letters: doest, doeth, dotes, ethos, hoods, hoots, hosed, oohed, shoed, shoot, shote, sooth, stood, those.

-3 letters: does, dose, dost, dote, doth, dots, edhs, eths, hest, hets, hods, hoed, hoes, hood, hoot, hose, host, hots, odes, ohed, oohs, oots, shed, shod, shoe, shoo, shot, soot, soth, teds, tods, toed.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-o-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: cohosted, dhooties, hoodiest, smoothed, toeholds, toolshed.

 

+2 letters: besoothed, hoteldoms, statehood, stokehold, theropods, toolheads, toolsheds.

 

+3 letters: besmoothed, godmothers, heartwoods, holystoned, hotdoggers, orthodoxes, outshouted, potholders, priesthood, resmoothed, rhodolites, rhodonites, scrootched, showboated, sisterhood, smoothened, sphenodont, statehoods, stokeholds, thecodonts, undershoot, unsmoothed, whitewoods.

 

+4 letters: cohostessed, dichotomies, fatherhoods, hopscotched, motherhoods, octahedrons, orthodoxies, orthopedics, orthopedist, otherworlds, parenthoods, photodiodes, photostated, priesthoods, servanthood, sisterhoods, stockholder, theodolites, theologised, toolholders, undershoots.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOOTHED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 4F 54 48 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    ---    -    ....    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004F 0054 0048 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53494954423938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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