appease
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).
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Verb[edit]
appease (third-person singular simple present appeases, present participle appeasing, simple past and past participle appeased)
- To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- '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!'
- 2017 October 9, Karl Mathiesen, quoting Tony Abbott, “Tony Abbott says climate change is 'probably doing good'”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- 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” .
- To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
- Synonyms: mollify, propitiate
- They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.
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Translations[edit]
to make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify
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to come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of
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Further reading[edit]
- “appease”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “appease”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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