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Pacifies
To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
📖 Definitions of "Pacifies"
verb
- 1
To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
- 2
To appease (someone).
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pacifies"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| mollifiesverb | To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of. |
| placatesverb | (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate. |
| quellsverb | (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit. |
| soothesverb | (transitive) To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh. |
| appeasesverb | To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred). |
| calmsverb | (transitive) To make calm. |
| assuagesverb | (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.). |
| shoosverb | (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave. |
| stupefiesverb | (transitive, by extension, figurative) To astonish or stun, especially as a result of some distressing action. |
| perturbsverb | To disturb; to bother or unsettle. |
| fomentsverb | (transitive) To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. |
| spurnsverb | (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. |
| banishesverb | (transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning. |
| harassesverb | (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period. |
| incitesverb | (transitive) To call into action. |
| emasculatesverb | (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. |
| intoxicatesverb | To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol. |
| expelsverb | (transitive) To eject. |
| besiegesverb | (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer. |
| acquiescesverb | (intransitive, with in or to (or sometimes with)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. |
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