appease

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  1. transitive verb To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe.
  2. transitive verb To satisfy or relieve: appease one's thirst.
  3. transitive verb To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle. See Synonyms at pacify.

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  • Then you'd offer an extravagant sacrifice to a being that no such thing will likely appease -- for you haven't met her as I have. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • There are so many powerful and relatively unaccountable interests presidents have to appease -- the faculty, influential alumni and trustees, politicians, etc. —  Center for College Affordability and Productivity
  • No problem disrupting the education of the kuffar, just appease, appease, appease. —  Infidels Are Cool
  • You must try quite a different method--appease them by sweetness and save your house and your life What could you do alone? —  Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
  • There was in her a longing which nothing could appease, an irresistible call toward the unattainable, the unknowable. —  Doctor Pascal
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  1. Middle English appesen, from Old French apesier : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + pais, peace (from Latin pāx; see pag- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Early modern English also apease, apeace (conformed to peace), apaise (and by apheresis pease), from Middle English apesen, apeisen, apaisen, from Old French apeser, apeisier, apaisier (French apaiser = Provencal apaziar), pacify, bring to peace, from a, to, + pais, peis, pes, modern F. paix, peace: see peace, and cf. apay, appay, of which appease is thus a doublet.
 

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