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unruffle

verb as in tranquilize

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It had to go off somewhere to sit in a huff, unruffle its feathers, and regain its ruthless composure.

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“I’m just thankful that Tra and I got the chance to unruffle its former beauty.”

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Why, then I see, a witch hath her good spells, As well as bad, and can by a backward charm Unruffle the foul storm she has just been raising.

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Tom was packed in ten minutes, all except what his aunt and Mary would finish up for him; then we waited ten more for her to get cooled down and sweet and gentle again; for Tom said it took her ten minutes to unruffle in times when half of her feathers was up, but twenty when they was all up, and this was one of the times when they was all up.

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Where'er he guides His finny coursers and in triumph rides, The waves unruffle and the sea subsides.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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