Meanings of pacify in English

Annie didn't know what to say, what words could soothe this situation.

Garcetti said he hoped the deepening business bonds would soothe government concerns.

Some hope that a potential deal may help soothe ongoing territorial disputes.

They're the sort of calming words people say to soothe others' anxiety.

This solution helps soothe irritated skin and may even prevent future breakouts.

To appease ye, I'll wait a few more days before returnin' home.

I spent year after year trying to appease them, to no avail.

And about Europe's attempts to appease Hitler before the Second World War.

In order to appease it, it was deemed necessary to offer sacrifices.

Who knows what was really said, what was altered to appease Rome?

Being able to show good governance structures will help assuage such fears.

Therefore it does not assuage bodily pain, which is in the senses.

And, I suppose, also to assuage my own personal sense of guilt.

To assuage that unhappiness he had taken a considerable quantity of drink.

Even this wholesale massacre did not assuage the wrath of the corsair.

The actual policy, and its physical demonstrations, repelled, and did not conciliate.

The system of Irala was to conciliate rather than subdue the natives.

The former gentry I knew how to conciliate, too, in other ways.

He took out the captured chiefs, and attempted to conciliate the Iroquois.

The attempt to conciliate both parties, had rendered it obnoxious to both.

In February the government sought to placate foreign investors with a Crisis?

Sources believe Bewkes will take steps to placate Robinov given his success.

We shall have sore work to placate my guest, then.' He sighs.

He had always employed laughter as a means to placate his victims.

In an attempt to placate her, I ask if she feels singular.

Some wonder whether the move is an attempt to mollify irked affiliates.

The change in tone did more to mollify her than anything else.

By looking serious Brooks sought to mollify the effect of his smile.

But the draft legislation failed to mollify the rightists and angered moderates.

The only way to get him to go is to mollify him.

It resembles a series of deep, half-smothered detonations linked together by querulous gruntle.

And surely the thing did cough and roar in the deep earth, and anon to gruntle gently and to sob and gurgle; and lo!

No doubt he was far from gruntled, to use PG Wodehouse's word, when he awoke.

McLean was less than gruntled, having spent hours working with Gray on the training ground.

When it comes to hurling, even at the best of times, Tipperary people are more often disgruntled than they are gruntled.

This will lenify the inside of the intestines by its unctuousness, and by that means bring away that which is contained in them more easily.