pacify

To pacify is defined as to soothe or calm, or to create peace where there was war or fighting.

(verb)

See pacify in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb pacified, pacifying

to make peaceful or calm; appease; tranquilize
1. to establish or secure peace in (a nation, etc.)
2. ☆ to seek to neutralize or win over (people in occupied areas)

Origin: ME pacifien < OFr pacefier < L pacificare < pax (gen. pacis), peace + facere, to make, do

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transitive verb pac·i·fied, pac·i·fy·ing, pac·i·fies

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Origin: Middle English pacifien

Origin: , from Old French pacifier

Origin: , from Latin pācificāre

Origin: : pāx, pāc-, peace; see pag- in Indo-European roots

Origin: + -ficāre, -fy

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