All take the edge off synonyms

verb take the edge off

• fine tune — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
• laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
• lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• alleviate — If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
• dilute — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
• cool out — to relax and cool down
• downing — a downward movement; descent.
• dulling — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
• assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
• downed — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• kiss and make up — be reconciled
• lessen — to become less.
• deescalate — To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
• attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
• de-escalate — to reduce the level or intensity of (a crisis, etc)
• balm — Balm is a sweet-smelling oil that is obtained from some tropical trees and used to make creams that heal wounds or reduce pain.
• cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
• balmed — simple past tense and past participle of balm.
• allying — to unite formally, as by treaty, league, marriage, or the like (usually followed by with or to): Russia allied itself to France.
• die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
• mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
• obtund — to blunt; dull; deaden.
• make peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
• minify — to make less.