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appease
English
Etymology
From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??pi?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Verb
appease (third-person singular simple present appeases, present participle appeasing, simple past and past participle appeased)
- To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
- Synonyms: calm, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, still, lull
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- 'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
- To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
- Synonyms: mollify, propitiate
Antonyms
- antagonize
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- appease in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- appease in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- paepaes
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