PLACATING

placating, appeasing(a), placative, placatory

(adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; “the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich”; “placating (or placative) gestures”; “an astonishingly placatory speech”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

placating

present participle of placate

Source: Wiktionary


PLACATE

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



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BREAK

(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”


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