Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To placate or attempt to placate (a threatening nation, for example) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle.
- transitive verb To calm, soothe, or quiet (someone): synonym: pacify.
- transitive verb To satisfy, relieve, or assuage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring to a state of peace; pacify; quiet by allaying anger, indignation, strife, etc.
- To allay; calm, as an excited state of feeling; remove, as a passion or violent emotion.
- To assuage or soothe, as bodily pain; satisfy, as an appetite or desire: as, to
appease the smart of a wound, or one's hunger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred)
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
quiet ; tocalm ; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred). - verb To
come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- verb overcome or allay
- verb make peace with
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I believing in appease the Corporate Power and the bourgeoisie.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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I believing in appease the Corporate Power and the bourgeoisie.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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And why did the conservative Chamberlain appease Hitler so much?
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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I don't want to raise the word appease, but is there a tendency in Europe to appease the radical Islamists -- Chris.
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You have said 'the Muslim faithful fight', you have said 'Muslims have a monopoly on terrorisms', you have used the word 'appease' - I call you: off topic, and stirring, and with an agenda I am not goign to indulge on this blog any more, which is not a place for stirring up race or faith-hatred.
Let's get writing... Rachel 2006
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It doesn’t surprise me that a much more diverse group with specialty constituencies to appease is balking here.
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It doesn’t surprise me that a much more diverse group with specialty constituencies to appease is balking here.
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Blackfire in its defense, claims that it paid more than $17,000 to the Mayor of Chicomuselo, for him, to 'appease' his local constituents.
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Blackfire in its defense, claims that it paid more than $17,000 to the Mayor of Chicomuselo, for him, to 'appease' his local constituents.
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Blackfire in its defense, claims that it paid more than $17,000 to the Mayor of Chicomuselo, for him, to 'appease' his local constituents.
bilby commented on the word appease
To butter up a hardened despot, eg. Dick 'Tater, with a tasty offering of pease.
Compare deep-fried-goodness diplomacy.
June 24, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word appease
See also Ally McFeal and her sizzling skirt.
June 24, 2008