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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Soothe \Soothe\ (s[=oo][th]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Soothed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Soothing}.] [Originally, to assent to as true; OE. so[eth]ien to verify, AS. ges[=o][eth]ian to prove the truth of, to bear witness. See {Sooth}, adjective]
1. To assent to as true. [Obs.] --Testament of Love.
2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. --Shak.
I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. --Addison.
3. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. --Congreve.
Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. --Byron.
Syn: To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Soothing \Sooth"ing\, a. & n. from {Soothe}, v.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
soothing
adjective
1: affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn"
2: freeing from fear and anxiety [syn: {assuasive}, {calming}, {pacifying}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "soothing": 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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