propitiate, appease
(verb) make peace with
quell, stay, appease
(verb) overcome or allay; “quell my hunger”
pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; “She managed to mollify the angry customer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
appease (third-person singular simple present appeases, present participle appeasing, simple past and past participle appeased)
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
Synonyms: calm, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, still, lull
To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
Synonyms: mollify, propitiate
• antagonize
• paepaes
Source: Wiktionary
Ap*pease", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appeasing.] Etym: [OE. apesen, apaisen, OF. apaisier, apaissier, F. apaiser, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. pais peace, F. paix, fr. L. pax, pacis. See Peace.]
Definition: To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.
Syn.
– To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose; calm; allay; hush; soothe; tranquilize.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
