wipe the tears

verb

Roget 834: relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften, soften down; foment, stupe^†, poultice; assuage, allay.    cheer, comfort, console; enliven; encourage, bear up, pat on the back, give comfort, set at ease; gladden the heart, cheer the heart; inspirit, invigorate.    remedy; cure etc. (restore) 660; refresh; pour balm into, pour oil on.    smooth the ruffled brow of care, temper the wind to the shorn lamb, lay the flattering unction to one's soul.    disburden etc. (free) 705; take a load off one's chest, get a load off one's chest, take off a load of care.    be relieved; breathe more freely, draw a long breath; take comfort; dry the tears, dry the eyes, wipe the tears, wipe the eyes.    ... show more

Roget 914: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole etc. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.    forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery.    raise pity, excite pity etc. n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.    ask for mercy etc. v.; supplicate etc. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.    ... show more

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