appease

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /əˈpiːz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iːz

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).
Synonyms: calm, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, still, lull

to appease the tumult of the ocean
- 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!'
To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
Synonyms: mollify, propitiate

They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

Antonyms edit

antagonize

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

to make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: խաղաղեցնել (hy) (xaġaġecʻnel), հանդարտեցնել (hy) (handartecʻnel), մեղմել (hy) (meġmel)
Belarusian: супако́йваць impf (supakójvacʹ), супако́іць pf (supakóicʹ)
Bulgarian: умиротворя́вам (bg) impf (umirotvorjávam), умиротворя́ (bg) pf (umirotvorjá), успокоя́вам (bg) impf (uspokojávam), успокоя́ pf (uspokojá)
Catalan: amainar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 安撫／安抚 (zh) (ānfǔ)
Danish: fredeliggøre, formilde, berolige
Dutch: kalmeren (nl)
Esperanto: trankviligi, kvietigi (eo)
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: hiljentää (fi) (to make quiet); rauhoittaa (fi) (to reduce to peace); tyynnyttää (fi) (to still)
French: apaiser (fr)
Galician: apaciguar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: besänftigen (de), friedlich stimmen
Greek:
Ancient: ἱλάσκομαι (hiláskomai)
Hebrew: לפייס (le'fayes)
Hungarian: csillapít (hu)
Irish: ceansaigh
Italian: placare (it), pacificare (it), calmare (it), pacificare (it)
Khmer: រំងាប់ (km) (rumngŏəp)
Latin: pācificō
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: whakamauru
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nahuatl: yolceuiz
Persian: آرام کردن (fa) (ârâm kardan)
Portuguese: apaziguar (pt)
Romanian: astâmpăra (ro)
Russian: умиротворя́ть (ru) impf (umirotvorjátʹ), умиротвори́ть (ru) pf (umirotvorítʹ), успока́ивать (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹ), успоко́ить (ru) pf (uspokóitʹ)
Sicilian: appaciari, carmari
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: apaciguar (es), calmar (es), aplacar (es)
Swahili: afiki (sw)
Swedish: blidka (sv), stilla (sv), lugna (sv), släcka (sv), mildra (sv)
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sakinleştirmek (tr)
Ukrainian: умиротворя́ти impf (umyrotvorjáty), умиротвори́ти pf (umyrotvorýty), утихоми́рювати impf (utyxomýrjuvaty), утихоми́рити pf (utyxomýryty)

to come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of

Bulgarian: умиротворя́вам (bg) impf (umirotvorjávam), умиротворя́ (bg) pf (umirotvorjá)
Finnish: lepyttää (fi), lepytellä (fi) (to come to terms with); myöntyä (fi) (to adapt to the demands of)
French: apaiser (fr)
German: beschwichtigen (de)
Persian: مماشات کردن (momâšât karan), دلجویی کردن (del-juyi kardan), آرام کردن (fa) (ârâm kardan)
Russian: умиротворя́ть (ru) impf (umirotvorjátʹ), умиротвори́ть (ru) pf (umirotvorítʹ)
Sicilian: appaciari
Ukrainian: умиротворя́ти impf (umyrotvorjáty), умиротвори́ти pf (umyrotvorýty)

Anagrams edit

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