Pacify

Quick meaning: Pacify is a verb meaning (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending (or suppressing) war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.

Meaning

(transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending (or suppressing) war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To appease (someone).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: peacify, repacify, allay, locarnize

Screaming feed me here Fill me up again Temporarily pacifying

Their orders were to pacify the province by destroying resistance.

Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.

Word Forms

• pacifies
• pacifying
• pacified

Synonyms for pacify

Depending on context, synonyms include allay, ameliorate, appease, assuage, becalm, bestill.

Antonyms for pacify

Common opposites include agitate, becraze, enrage, harass, provoke, taunt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include placate, appease, lenify, mollify, assuage, gentle.

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