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has pacified

  • present perfect
    of pacify (3rd person singular).
    pacify
    verb (used with object)
    to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquility; quiet; calm.

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This is a man who has pacified a team who seemed to be at war with itself once.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024

A wing of F-35s is being based in his state of Arizona, which has pacified him.

From Forbes ● Jun. 7, 2015

"But he says that he has pacified the islands and brought the war to a close!"

From Captain Jinks, Hero by Daniel Carter Beard

Salçedo has pacified not only Los Camarines, but Albay and the island of Catanduanes.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

General Weyler has stated that he has pacified the eastern part of the island, and has only a little more work to do before he will have the west completely subdued.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 51, October 28, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop