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placate
/ˈpleɪkeɪt/
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What does placate mean?
verb
- To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
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adjective
- (obsolete, rare) Placid, peaceful.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpleɪkeɪt/
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In the great house which had been built to please, or rather placate, his wife, he kept to himself as much as possible.
It is the office of a mediator to conciliate the party that is offended and to placate the party that is the offender.
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Now Anu and Enlil are the two great gods who had determined on mankind's destruction, and whose wrath at his own escape from death Ziusudu must placate.
She made a sort of chart, superimposing the different religions as I described them, with a pin run through them all, as it were; their common basis being a Dominant Power or Powers, and some Special Behavior, mostly taboos, to please or placate.