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ap⋅pease
[uh-peez] 
–verb (used with object), -peased, -peas⋅ing.
| 1. | to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king. |
| 2. | to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger. |
| 3. | to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles. |
Origin:
1300–50; ME apesen < AF apeser, OF apais(i)er, equiv. to a- a- 5 + paisi- peace + -er inf. suffix
1300–50; ME apesen < AF apeser, OF apais(i)er, equiv. to a- a- 5 + paisi- peace + -er inf. suffix
Related forms:
ap⋅peas⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ap⋅peas⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun
ap⋅peas⋅a⋅bly, adverb
ap⋅pease⋅ment, noun
ap⋅peas⋅er, noun
ap⋅peas⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. calm, placate. 3. Appease, conciliate, propitiate imply trying to preserve or obtain peace. To appease is to make anxious overtures and often undue concessions to satisfy the demands of someone with a greed for power, territory, etc.: Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler at Munich. To conciliate is to win an enemy or opponent over by displaying a willingness to be just and fair: When mutual grievances are recognized, conciliation is possible. To propitiate is to admit a fault, and, by trying to make amends, to allay hostile feeling: to propitiate an offended neighbor.
1. calm, placate. 3. Appease, conciliate, propitiate imply trying to preserve or obtain peace. To appease is to make anxious overtures and often undue concessions to satisfy the demands of someone with a greed for power, territory, etc.: Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler at Munich. To conciliate is to win an enemy or opponent over by displaying a willingness to be just and fair: When mutual grievances are recognized, conciliation is possible. To propitiate is to admit a fault, and, by trying to make amends, to allay hostile feeling: to propitiate an offended neighbor.
Antonyms:
1. enrage. 2. increase, arouse, sharpen. 3. defy.
1. enrage. 2. increase, arouse, sharpen. 3. defy.
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Appeasement
Ap*pease"ment\, n. The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. --Hayward.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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appeasement
A political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation.
Note: A classic example of appeasement is the Munich Pact of 1938, negotiated between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain, the prime minister of Britain, allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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