pacify
verb (used with object)
have pacified
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present perfectof pacify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For now, the changes have pacified Wall Street, where some disgruntled investors were calling for Mr. Costolo’s resignation just a few months ago.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015
People's good energies have pacified the fighters: they're hugging within seconds.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2013
BBC Brasil's Julia Carneiro says that police have "pacified" more than 20 shanty towns in recent years.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2012
Since then, peace deals with the region's warlords have pacified the delta, and Boko Haram in the north has become the number one threat to Nigeria's security.
From Reuters ● Jan. 2, 2012
If Zagloba had been in the secret, he would have pacified Pan Michael certainly, by saying that women have not over-much mercy for one another.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
