pacify
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pacify
- /ˈpæsɪfaɪ/ US
- /ˈpæsəfaɪ/ US
Sounds like passify
Where it comes from
From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“to do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.
verb pacifies · pacifying · pacified
- To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending (or suppressing) war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation. Near-synonyms: peacify, repacify, allay, locarnize
- To mollify, placate or soothe (someone or something). As to your frequent remarks in your letters about pacifying my friend, I have done everything I could and tried every expedient; but he is inveterate against you to a surprising degree, on what suspicions, though I think you have been told, you shall yet learn from me when you come.
- To appease (someone). Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.
Similar: allay, ameliorate, appease, assuage, becalm, gentle, bestill, bring down, calm, calm down, cool down, cool off
