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placate
1[ pley-keyt, plak-eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures:
to placate an outraged citizenry.
Synonyms: satisfy, conciliate
placate
2[ plak-eyt, -it ]
noun
- a piece of plate armor of the 15th to the 18th century protecting the lower part of the torso in front: used especially as a reinforcement over a breastplate.
placate
/ pləˈkeɪt /
verb
- tr to pacify or appease
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Derived Forms
- plaˈcation, noun
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Other Words From
- placat·er noun
- pla·ca·tion [pley-, key, -sh, uh, n], noun
- un·placat·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of placate1
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Example Sentences
Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.
He, too, refused to work with the Kudo-kai or placate them and he, too, was shot to death just last December.
Will putting Castro in the Cabinet be enough to placate those Latinos disillusioned with Obama?
The police inside, clearly alarmed, did nothing while their senior officer leaned out of the window and tried to placate the mob.
So, to placate his parents, he decides to marry Wei-Wei (May Chin), a penniless Chinese opera singer in his building.
At those words, designed to placate, the fire which smouldered in Lola's breast burst into sudden flame.
But the thought of his own had by now become a much greater anxiety to him than the wish to placate Chloe.
Mrs. Patton was still in mourning, a filmy and diaphanous kind of mourning, beautiful enough to placate the angel Azrael himself.
“Or call it by some pretty name to placate it,” Euphrosyne suggested.
It is the office of a mediator to conciliate the party that is offended and to placate the party that is the offender.
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