appease

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[ US /əˈpiz/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈiːz/ ]

VERB

overcome or allay
quell my hunger
make peace with
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
She managed to mollify the angry customer

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How To Use appease In A Sentence

And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
His performance did little to appease the government 's critics. Times, Sunday Times
That will not appease all critics. Times, Sunday Times
So, the tension is in the past and the sexual curiosity was appeased.
In case a dish fails to appease a customer, Steve Carrasco can always make a flying getaway.
This was coupled with a political imperative to appease employers. Times, Sunday Times
God is satisfied: his wrath is appeased; justice has been done.
Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
She wants to move on to the short story, but I see her father's ghost is still unappeased.
The captain appeased the coolies 'fears by stating that they should go off in the pilot's boat. Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

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