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Definition of appeasing : of Appease

Synonyms:

conciliatory, conciliative, placatory, placative

comforting, alleviating, relieving, curing, lulling, easing, assuaging, helping, consoling, aiding, remedying

bargaining, adjusting, reconciling, compromising, mediating, conceding, allowing, giving and taking, compensating, accommodating, settling

gratifying, slaking, engorging, quenching, satiating, glutting, stuffing, gorging, saturating, sating, satisfying, filling

subduing

pacifying, stilling, allaying, placating, quelling, composing, tranquilizing, cooling, soothing, quieting, sedating, calming

hushing, conciliating, smoothing, moderating, mollifying, softening, defusing, ebbing, stabilizing

recompensing, rectifying, making amends, atoning, redeeming, retaliating, redressing

Usage examples:

• The monopolizing eater of animal flesh would no longer destroy his constitution by devouring an acre at a meal, and many loaves of bread would cease to contribute to gout, madness and apoplexy, in the shape of a pint of porter, or a dram of gin, when appeasing the long- protracted famine of the hardworking peasant's hungry babes. - "The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III", Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A..
• Venus stops him, and employs, in her soothing and caresses, all the usual arts of appeasing and blinding a jealous lover. - "A Treatise on the Art of Dancing", Giovanni-Andrea Gallini.
• The District Attorney talked to the jury of " the necessity of appeasing the South." - "Isaac T. Hopper", L. Maria Child.