pacify

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to become calm or make someone calm
calm downDad was really angry and it was a long time before he calmed down.
calmHe calmed the crying baby.
settle downChildren, settle down and take your seats!
simmer downOkay, simmer down - no one's trying to upset you.
cool down/offWhy don't you go for a walk and cool off?
chill outMum, chill out! I'll be home before midnight, I promise!

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Calming and relaxing
appease
assuage
balls-to-the-wall
bask
bread
calm
chill
let/blow off steamidiom
lie down
lighten something up
lull
lull someone into something
melt
relaxation
settle
settle down
shirt
simmer
simmer down
slow down

placate | American Dictionary

placate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈpleɪ·keɪt, ˈplæk·eɪt/
to stop someone from feeling angry:
She’s more easily placated than her husband.

Examples of placate

placate
To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.
Some effort was made, therefore, to placate the populace by addressing their material and security needs as well as by rehabilitating public institutions and facilities.
The policy reform of the care of the elderly ended up adopting various compromises in order to placate the old guard.
This not only increases private sector participation but also ensures that punishment of government does not merely represent scapegoating or efforts to placate the disaffected.
Such a move was very strategic, for not only did it placate the fishermen but asserted the authority of the kadakkodi.
Yet on the other hand, policy is also fiendishly designed to supply cheap labour while placating a nativist electorate.
They have only to humour and placate the individuals involved, fawning and toadying appropriately, and all will be well.
In the late 1960s, however, central government's efforts to placate local authorities failed to provide a flexible measure for inducing the right kind of cooperation.
Secondly, to avoid conflict, carers placated the person with dementia and gave in to them, even if it delayed the completion of a task.
By pleading guilty men hoped to placate complainants, disputing neither the facts presented nor the importance of gaining a father's consent.
Caught between the demands of patriotism and the demands of commercialism, the city council needed to find some way to placate everyone.
It is even possible that his need to placate the honored master completely was strong enough to induce him to fabricate the story of the theory's general propagation.
Royal stock also built relations beyond the polity, being used to placate and to trade with other sovereigns.
But beware of the day when the workers meet you in battle array, as they will unless you are prepared to placate the situation.
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