placate
verb (used with object)
to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
had placated
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past perfectof placate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Mr. McCarthy took input from various factions of the party in creating the document, and on Friday, it seemed he had placated most of them — at least for now.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
But while they had placated the party factions, they had done nothing to satisfy the people as a whole or to redress their grievances.
From The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics by Henry Jones Ford
No doubt the money she raised to placate Plank—if she had placated him in that fashion—was a strain on her resources, whatever those resources were.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But he was mistaken if he supposed that he had placated Cecilia.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
