pacify
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From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“I do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.
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pacify (third-person singular simple present pacifies, present participle pacifying, simple past and past participle pacified)
- (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
- (transitive) To appease (someone).
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.
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bring peace, ending fighting
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appease
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