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What is the verb for gentle?

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gentle
  1. (intransitive) to become gentle (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (transitive) to ennoble (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (transitive, animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  4. (transitive) To soothe; to calm. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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  6. Examples:
    1. “She was a loud and rambunctious woman but she would always gentle her tone around children.”
      “The first thing a trainer must learn is how to gentle a horse.”
      “He bought his irate wife a Louis Vuitton handbag to gentle her after he had forgotten their anniversary.”
gentles
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gentle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many anglers use pellets, boilies, gentles, casters and various flavoured paste baits, but for me it's bread.”
      “Chub are the number one species at the moment with swim feeder rig and gentles being the top way of fishing.”
      “So it will be 'welcome, gentles all' next summer, and we hope to see many of you passing through.”
gentled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of gentle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus, we noticed that the no-nonsense lines of the building have been gentled by a topiary maze in the foreground.”
      “The hands that held her upper arms gentled, though they did not relinquish their hold.”
      “She gentled the kiss, kissing him back softly, slowly, until his rage had melted away.”
gentling
  1. present participle of gentle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He looked to the sky and calmed the storm, gentling the wind and made the snow fall thinner.”
      “He knelt, compassion gentling his heart, and put one hand to the insentient face.”
      “They ask for gentling and should receive it.”
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