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
placate (third-person singular simple present placates, present participle placating, simple past and past participle placated)
(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
• (to calm): appease, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, satisfy
• (to calm): enrage
• epactal
Source: Wiktionary
Plac"ate, n.
Definition: Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
Pla"cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated; p. pr. & vb. n. Placating.] Etym: [L. placatus, p.p. of placare to placate, akin to placere to please. See Please.]
Definition: To appease; to pacify; to concilate. "Therefore is he always propitiated and placated." Cudworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
