appease

Verb

Meaning

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

assuage conciliate quiet calm pacify placate soothe mollify propitiate hush stay settle ease satisfy compose
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Antonyms

antagonize madden chevy jade badger kindle
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Hypernyms

still meet fit fill settle satisfy

Phrases with the word

To appease

Derivatives

appealed appeasing

Examples

quell my hunger Source: Internet

She managed to mollify the angry customer Source: Internet

1999-2009 The arrangement proved to do little to appease opposition. Source: Internet

After this demonstration of their power, the head knight threatens to say "Ni!" again unless the travelers appease them with a shrubbery; otherwise they shall never pass through the wood alive. Source: Internet

Appointing phony representatives to appease or empower those unable to persuade their fellow citizens of what the law should be is no way to resolve differences of opinion. Source: Internet

Agamemnon extended his dominion by conquest and became the most powerful prince in Greece.sfn However, when Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods before the war with Troy, Clytemnestra turned against him. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

appeasableness appeasably appeasatory appeasee appeaseless appeasement