appease

EnglishEdit

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

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

They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

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

Armenian: խաղաղեցնել (hy) (xałałecʿnel), հանդարտեցնել (hy) (handartecʿnel), մեղմել (hy) (mełmel)
Bulgarian: укротявам (bg) (ukrotjavam), облекчавам (bg) (oblekčavam), утолявам (bg) (utoljavam)
Catalan: amainar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 妥协 (zh)
Dutch: kalmeren (nl)
Esperanto: trankviligi, kvietigi (eo)
Finnish: hiljentää (fi) (to make quiet); rauhoittaa (fi) (to reduce to peace); tyynnyttää (fi) (to still)
French: apaiser (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: besänftigen (de), friedlich stimmen
Greek:
Ancient: ἱλάσκομαι (hiláskomai)
Hebrew: לפייס‎ (le'fayes)
Hungarian: csillapít (hu)
Interlingue: calmar, quietar, tranquilisar

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

Finnish: lepyttää (fi), lepytellä (fi) (to come to terms with); myöntyä (fi) (to adapt to the demands of)