Appease

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe.
  • v. To satisfy or relieve: appease one's thirst.
  • v. To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle. See Synonyms at pacify.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
  • v. To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred)
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bring to a state of peace; pacify; quiet by allaying anger, indignation, strife, etc.
  • To allay; calm, as an excited state of feeling; remove, as a passion or violent emotion.
  • To assuage or soothe, as bodily pain; satisfy, as an appetite or desire: as, to appease the smart of a wound, or one's hunger.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
  • v. overcome or allay
  • v. make peace with
  • Antonym
    antagonize   
    Verb Form
    appeased    appeases    appeasing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    calm    tranquillise    calm down    quieten    lull    still    tranquillize    quiet    tranquilize    satisfy   
    Cross Reference
    satisfy    pacify   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    calm    pacify    propitiate    soothe    compose    conciliate    quiet    hush    allay    tranquilize   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdulaziz    Annamese    Aziz    Balinese    Beas    Belize    Bes    Burmese    Cadiz    Cantonese   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts