pacify
paci·fy (pas′ə fī′)
pacify
v.
To mollify
conciliate, appease, placate, mollify, propitiate, assuage, soothe, smooth over, calm, tranquilize, subdue, pour oil on troubled waters; see also quiet 1.To quiet
soothe, silence, lull; see quiet 2.
pacify implies the making quiet, calm, and peaceful of someone or something that has become agitated, angry, or disorderly to pacify a crying child; appease suggests a pacifying by gratifying or giving in to the demands of to appease one's hunger; mollify suggests a soothing of wounded feelings or an allaying of indignation his compliments failed to mollify her; placate implies the changing of a hostile or angry attitude to a friendly or favorable one to placate an offended colleague; propitiate implies an allaying or forestalling of hostile feeling by winning the good will of sacrifices made to propitiate a deity; conciliate implies the use of arbitration, concession, persuasion, etc. in an attempt to win over
Object
- crowd: Somehow, the Kaptain managed to pacify the crowd with a recitation of Nervous Norvus's ' Wild Dogs Of Kentucky ' .
- area: If you plan properly you can actually help pacify areas, by not concentrating the wrong type of businesses together and communities together.
- conscience: It pacifies a troubled conscience and it removes the fear of death.
- people: No sooner had the Imam received the news of the event than he came to pacify the people.
- country: There was a dramatic failure to rein in the warlords, disarm and pacify the country.
- child: Never use a flame from matches, lighters or candles to pacify a child, or attract a child's attention.
Modifying Another Word
- easily: He who is easily provoked and is easily pacified, he loses more than he gains.
- not: If the mind is not pacified, how much more will I not generate the Great Mind?
- also: They become upset very easily, but they are also pacified very easily.
- only: If stewed or cooked until they are soft, they are not only pacifying to Apana Vata, but also to Pitta dosha.
- supposedly: Beginning in 1979, he persuaded a number of American prisons to paint their cells a camp, but supposedly pacifying shade.
- sufficiently: By Christmas 1949, the area had been sufficiently pacified for the police to relieve military forces.
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