Lenify

Quick meaning: Lenify is a verb meaning (obsolete, transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).

Meaning

(obsolete, transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).

Example Sentences

These first infused, to lenify the pain He tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain

And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue

Word Forms

• lenifies
• lenifying
• lenified

Synonyms for lenify

Depending on context, synonyms include assuage, placate, conciliate, appease, mollify, gruntle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assuage, mollify, appease, placate, pacify, conciliate.

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