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mollify
/ˈmɑləˌfaɪ/
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What does mollify mean?
verb
- To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
- To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
- To soften; to make tender.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɑləˌfaɪ/
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Maine butter needs something to mollify and sweeten it a little, and I think birch bark will do it.
River none can mollify; Into it we throw Fool who doesn't follify, Cock who doesn't crow!
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Wherefore Numa, judging it no slight undertaking to mollify and bend to peace the presumptuous and stubborn spirits of this people, began to operate upon them with the sanctions of religion.
Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt’s manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.
We are checked by these cerebral activities, we choose some other reaction than fight; perhaps we prevent him from further assault, or we turn and walk away, or we start to explain, to mollify and console, or to remonstrate and reprove.