appease
verb (used with object)
to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe.
had appeased
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past perfectof appease.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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South Korea thought it had appeased its powerful friend.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Hearing from him had appeased my bruised ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had appeased Israeli peaceniks by attending the conference while reassuring his hard-line supporters that he remains unbending on issues that count.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the ministry which succeeded it had not been a year in office before the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townsend, revived the discontents in America which Lord Rockingham had appeased.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
