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1 placate: verb by concessions or conciliatory gestures definition:
to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures

2 placate pronunciation pley keyt

3 placate conciliate reconcile comfort mollify satisfy appease assuage
Synonyms conciliate reconcile comfort mollify satisfy appease assuage

4 placate placater placation placative related forms noun: adjective:
placatory placative

5 placate Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva tried to placate demonstrators' concerns

6 placate The European union bill did little to placate skeptics.

7 placate The busy mother constantly used a pacifier to placate her child.

8 placate Before climbing over the fence, the boy tried to placate the angry dog.

9 placate Even Santa could not placate the hysterical child.

10 placation When emotions flare, various means of placation are needed to encourage people to deescalate.

11 placater The girls acted as placaters because of the absence of their teacher.


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