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APPEASE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make peace with

Synonyms:

appease; propitiate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "appease" is one way to...):

conciliate; make up; patch up; reconcile; settle (come to terms)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

appeasable (capable of being pacified)

appeaser (someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overcome or allay

Example:

quell my hunger

Synonyms:

appease; quell; stay

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "appease" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Example:

She managed to mollify the angry customer

Synonyms:

appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "appease" is one way to...):

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to appease Sue

Derivation:

appeasable (capable of being pacified)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Her wretchedness I could have borne, but her passion—her malice—At all events it must be appeased.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris, who had begun to redden, was appeased; and, for a little while, other subjects took place of the improvements of Sotherton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was not until he had received his apology that our touchy friend would suffer himself to be appeased.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My hunger, sharp before, was, if not satisfied, appeased by this hermit's meal.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Yes, sir,” the cook eagerly interpolated, with appeasing and apologetic servility.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This, on arriving in Pulteney Street, took the direction of extraordinary hunger, and when that was appeased, changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours, and from which she awoke perfectly revived, in excellent spirits, with fresh hopes and fresh schemes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Go along with you, sir!” said my aunt, anything but appeased.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Then don't go and be suspicious. I only want some money," said Laurie, walking on again, appeased by her hearty tone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)