Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease. See Synonyms at pacify.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To appease or pacify; conciliate.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as placard, 4 & 5.
- v. To appease; to pacify; to concilate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Etymologies
- From Latin plācātus, past participle of plācō ("appease, placate", literally "smooth, smoothen"), from Proto-Indo-European *plāk- (“smooth, flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pele- (“broad, flat, plain”). Related to Latin placeō ("appease"), Old English flōh ("flat stone, chip"). More at please. (Wiktionary)
- Latin plācāre, plācāt-, to calm; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Many men that "attend church" do so to pacify their wives and/or "keep up an image" or ignorantly attemp to "placate" the God they don't even know.”
“COSSACK: Now, when you say "placate," give us a little more description.”
“The human-rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the United Nations not to "placate" the government of the”
“State -- all because you have to 'placate' the Irish interest.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 29, 1920
“Sacrifice no longer serves to "placate" the divinity, but rather to placate man and to make him desist from his hostility toward God and his neighbor.”
“Mrs Duhig said the boy then went back downstairs and his mum checked on her other children before going down to "placate" him.”
“A whale of a day near the Farallones water to 'placate' nurseAllegations on tranquilliser overprescribing for councilJobs and economy to dominate Ictu conferenceMore awareness of economic inequality, survey showsBody”
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“In the whale-watching world in St Lucia, permit holder and researcher Danie Bennett gives names to humpbacks with specific markings, so water to 'placate' nurseAllegations on tranquilliser overprescribing for councilJobs and photo/Mark Mitchell A southern right whale and its calf are attracting lots of attention in Waiwera, north of”
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“Democrats did not win overwhelming majorities by promising to placate the Republicans.”
“This Nation, which the two of you swore to uphold, can't even get to the bottom of a key financial report owed to the very American people you so desperately try to placate ..”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘placate’.
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 112 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2049 more...
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P
letters starting with p
predicament, presumptuous, predilection, plausible, preeminent, plaintive, paragon, partisan, pathological, paucity, pedantic, penchant and 28 more...
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Words for Anna
exacerbate, pixilate, obviate, placate, titilate, interpolate, perambulate, vacillate, abnegate, indignant, perpetrate, conjure and 7 more...
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Lesson 9
dumbfounded, ensue, era, flourish, garrison, grievous', hoard, inundate, invincible, nomad, placate, principal and 3 more...
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Wordly Wise Vocab 9
dumbfound, ensue, era, flourish, garrison, grievous, hoard, inundate, invincible, nomad, placate, principal and 3 more...
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GRE
trope, surreptitious, tenet, insular, munificent, exegesis, limpid, acerbic, litany, cupidity, restive, protract and 105 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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to memorize
words i need to memorize
aberrant, abscond, advocate, aggrandize, amalgamate, ambiguous, ambrosial, anomalous, antediluvian, antipathy, arbitrate, assuage and 163 more...
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GRE
anomaly, assuage, enigma, equivocal, erudite, fervid, placate, lucid, opaque, precipitate, prodigal, zeal and 113 more...
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Joe's list
Fissiparous Weekly Standard Nigeria a fissiparous country 3/2012
fissiparous, inchoate, punctilious, synecdoche, apocryphal, superadd, pedant, pedagogy, astigmatic, inter alia, aphoristically, eponymous and 131 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for placate.
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ex.- After the injections, the nurse placated the toddler by giving him a lollipop. May 21, 2009
oroboros PlACaTe May 1, 2008