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mollifies

  • present tense form of mollify (3rd person singular).

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"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?

From Time Magazine Archive

So, so; she mollifies apace—she's struck with my figure! this attitude has had its effect.

From The Duenna by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

It mollifies our inferiority to be able to add to our honest admiration of anyone's great intellectual merit, 'But did you ever see such a chin!'

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

This mollifies him, and he politely shows us what he is doing.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry