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Adjective pacifying has 1 sense
- assuasive, calming, pacifying, soothing - freeing from fear and anxiety
Antonyms: unreassuring, worrisome (indirect, via reassuring)
Verb pacify has 2 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 pacify Sue
- pacify - fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"
--2 is one way to establish, give
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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