How to pronounce “gentle”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
• Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
• Docile and easily managed.
• Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
• Polite and respectful rather than rude.
• (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To become gentle.
• (transitive, obsolete) To ennoble.
• (transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate.
• (transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.
• [Noun]
• (archaic) A person of high birth.
• (fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
• A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

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