appease
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
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, Dracula Chapter 21
- '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!'
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- 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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TranslationsEdit
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
Further readingEdit
- appease in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- appease in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.