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mollify

To mollify is to pacify someone or to make something less severe. (verb)

When you apologize to someone who is really mad at you and they calm down a bit, this is an example ofmollify.

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See mollify in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See mollify in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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