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To bring to a state of peace or quiet. (past tense)

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Usage examples (35)
  • Verb (used with object), : to appease an angry king. ,The fruit appeased his hunger
  • Chaimberlin "appeased" Hitler by handing over Czechoslovakia to him, not by talking to him.
  • The current uneasy state is one in which, largely speaking, the conservatives are being appeased from a reluctance to risk that break.
  • The producer just kind of appeased him... nodded and stuff.
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