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Meaning appease meaning

What does appease mean?
Definitions in simple English

appease Verb

— To appease is to calm down an angry or dangerous person. She was so angry, but he managed to appease her.

appease

— verb (= mollify) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of She managed to mollify the angry customer — verb (= propitiate) make peace with — verb (= quell) overcome or allay quell my hunger

Synonyms appease synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as appease?

appease English » English

pacify soothe calm placate conciliate assuage mollify quiet quieten propitiate still satisfy allay tranquilize comfort reassure tranquillize silence quell mitigate hush gruntle gentle wheedle weaken suppress subdue stay soften set at ease satiate sate relieve quiten please palliate overcome make silent lenify entreat console compose coax calm down butter up bribe attenuate atone alleviate win over

Topics appease topics

What do people use appease to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Avoid
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Appease
Social behavior Conflict Peace Make peace

Stop fighting

Conjugation appease conjugation

How do you conjugate appease?

appease · verb

Examples appease examples

How do I use appease in a sentence?

Simple sentences

One way Germany hopes to reduce its carbon footprint - and appease the young climate activists - is by rolling out new and innovative trains.
Management tried to appease labor by offering them a bonus.
Only a sincere apology will appease my anger.
Tom likes to complain in order to appease his envious neighbors.

Movie subtitles

All this to appease public opinion!
With my job, I have other kinds of hunger to appease!
Oh, God, if my deep prayers will not appease thee. but thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds. yet execute thy wrath on me alone.
Appease your hunger, sir.
To appease the fires, there must be a human sacrifice.
We'll have one quick one to appease the natives.
To love nature and to fear it, and to rely on it and to appease it where necessary.
I'm restoring the holy mountain to appease the spirit of Aggedor.
They bring flowers and shells to appease him.
I thought it might be wise if I would take a jaunt out there and see if I can't appease the girl.
How much would appease you?
In order to appease the gods, the druid priests. held. fire. rituals.
TO APPEASE HIM.
APPEASE HIM?
They travelled to Lhasa in order to atone for theft, rape and manslaughter, and to appease the Gods regarding future atrocities.
For death shall appease Ishtar through the spirit bride of sacrifice.
Appease yourself, my love.
It will be done several times to appease gods.
Not for survival, to secure shelter or to appease hunger.
Now we have to appease criminals with bread.
We need to appease them and that's why. we put them up against a Parisian team.
He simply wanted to appease Mrs. Wormser to buy a little time.
You're saying his only goal was to appease her. How do you explain this?
And now, to appease the intellectuals of our audience, the Great Gonzo will catch a cannonball with his bare hand, as fired from a muzzle-loading cannon.
In order to appease the gods, the Druid priests held fire rituals.
I'm restoring the holy mountain, to appease the spirit of Aggedor!
He simply wanted to appease Mrs. Wormser...to buy a little time. He was running.
You're saying his only goal was to appease her.
I will kill him as sacrifice to appease the wrath of my god Weng-Chiang, to prove that I, above all others, am your true servant!
And enough people to buy them, to appease their rage.
And given half the chance, you'd appease the Kaiser as well.
So was sacrificing virgins to appease the gods but we don't do that anymore.
Who are you trying to appease. foreign governments, foreign bankers?
Placate: To appease, to make feel better.
We must appease his wrath!
If you give me the girl I'll appease the Prince's wrath.
Somehow, his hero's burial failed to appease Miss WoIverton's grief. She broke with her family and soon after, came here.

News and current affairs

To appease the extremists might be easy but may not work.
Fearful of challenging the armed terrorists, the international bodies that govern Kosovo prefer to appease them.
The worst mistake would be to follow the opposite policy - an inevitably futile effort to appease the extremists or seek to moderate them.
The Japanese at first tried to appease the Russians, declaring Manchuria beyond its sphere of interest in exchange for a similar guarantee from Russia about Korea.
Perhaps this assurance of broad international support made it prudent--or at least less imprudent--to appease the financial markets first.
It will take more than a few role models, such as Zinedine Zidane, France's greatest soccer star, to appease the frustrations and to curb the resentments.
To appease the Americans, discussions are taking place about shifting state religious oversight to marginal tasks such as operating schools for memorization of the Koran and regulating tourism.
To Appease or Not to Appease?
Instead, they repress, censor, silence and even imprison the moderates and appease the religious radicals.
As an energy superpower, Russia can open its coffers to appease, at least in part, the humiliation that it has inflicted on its citizens by falsifying the country's recent legislative election results.
On the government's part, the more open media in Sichuan may be mere posturing to appease critics after the Tibet upheaval and the scuffle over the Olympic torch.
If China responds to entreaties to revalue the yuan, it may need to look tough on other issues to appease nationalist sentiment.
Moreover, the West's inclination to appease China will gradually cause ordinary Chinese to lose confidence that economic modernization will ever set them free.
That propensity to act against its own interests to appease an enraged and emotional public was underscored by the recent destruction of al-Shaludi's family home.
Given Japan's huge accumulated national debts, the LDP can no longer appease the electorate through pork-barrel spending.
To appease radical opinion, Islamic militant leaders who were jailed a year ago are now operating freely again.
In the end, the decision to build the Wall was a desperate bid both to secure the continuation of communist rule in East Germany and to appease his detractors.
Only by equivocating about the relocation plan could Kan appease both the governor and US President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to meet Kan in Tokyo the same month.
That is why, as hard as it may be for Western powers, some efforts to appease Russia are unavoidable.

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