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To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. +

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. +

(obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.

(archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

(archaic, by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.

Alleviation; abatement; check.

(obsolete) An alloy.