Definition of pacify

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Pacify (v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity..

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Quiet :: Quiet (v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief..
Pacation :: Pacation (n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.
Repacify :: Repacify (v. t.) To pacify again.
Pacifying :: Pacifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pacif.
Assuage :: Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire..
Mollify :: Mollify (v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm..
Settle :: Settle (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel..
Placate :: Placate (v. t.) To appease; to pacify; to concilate.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions..
Sop :: Sop (v. t.) Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology..
Demulce :: Demulce (v. t.) To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.
Appease :: Appease (v. t.) 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..
Capacify :: Capacify (v. t.) To quality.
Pacify :: Pacify (v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity..
Pacification :: Pacification (n.) The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation..
Quell :: Quell (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul..
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