placate

  • 21placate — pla·cate || pleɪ keɪt /plÉ™ keɪt v. appease, satisfy; conciliate, reconcile; calm, pacify, comfort …

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  • 22placate — [plə keɪt, plakeɪt, pleɪ ] verb calm, pacify, or appease. Derivatives placating adjective placatingly adverb placation noun placatory adjective …

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  • 23placate — v. a. Conciliate, appease, pacify …

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  • 24Placate — ♦ Narrow plate rising to a point in the middle of the top edge, worn below a shortened breastplate to allow more flexibility. (Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare, 250) …

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  • 25placate — v appease, mollify, propitiate, conciliate, satisfy, please; pacify, calm, quiet, still, lull, soothe; assuage, relieve, alleviate, temper, moderate, ease; subdue, win over, reconcile …

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  • 26placate — pla·cate …

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  • 27placate — [pləˈkeɪt] verb [T] formal to stop someone feeling angry or offended by being nice to them Syn: pacify …

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  • 28placate — pla•cate [[t]ˈpleɪ keɪt, ˈplæk eɪt[/t]] v. t. cat•ed, cat•ing to appease or pacify, esp. by concessions • Etymology: 1670–80; < L plācātus, ptp. of plācāre to quiet, calm, appease, akin to placēre to please; see ate I pla′cat•er, n.… …

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  • 29placate — /pləˈkeɪt / (say pluh kayt) verb (t) (placated, placating) to appease; pacify. {Latin plācātus, past participle} –placation, noun …

  • 30placate —   v.t. soothe; appease.    ♦ placatory, a …

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