appease
verbEtymology
Definitions
To make quiet
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce (something) to a state of peace; to dispel (anger, hatred, etc.).
- to appease the tumult of the ocean
- 'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
To make conciliatory offerings or concessions to (someone) in an attempt to dispel their…
To make conciliatory offerings or concessions to (someone) in an attempt to dispel their anger, aggression, etc.; to adapt to the demands of; to come to terms with.
- They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.
- Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has suggested climate change is “probably doing good” in a speech in London in which he likened policies to combat it to “primitive people once killing goats to appease the volcano gods” .
- It's been slowly hacked back, amid fears of escalating costs, by politicians who have also increased those costs by adding expensive structures such as tunnels to appease opponents.
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- antonymantagonize
Derived
appeasable, appeasatory, appeasee, appeaseless, appeasement, appeasenik, appeaser, appeasingly, appeasive, reappease, unappeased
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at appease. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at appease. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at appease
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA