To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
Alleviation; abatement; check.
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.