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Adjective appeasing has 1 sense
- appeasing, placating, placative, placatory - tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech"
Antonym: antagonistic (indirect, via conciliatory)
Verb appease has 3 senses
- pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
--1 is one way to calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to appease Sue
- quell, stay, appease - overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
--2 is one way to meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something ----s somebody
- propitiate, appease - make peace with
--3 is one way to reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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