pacify
- to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- to appease: to pacify one's appetite.
- to reduce to a state of submission, especially by military force; subdue.
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Related Words for pacified
mitigate, placate, assuage, repress, soothe, quell, ameliorate, mollify, allay, tame, square, subdue, dulcify, soften, stroke, grease, lull, still, propitiate, composeExamples from the Web for pacified
Historical Examples of pacified
It was necessary that the Spaniards be pacified, and the slayer could not be found.
The Trail BookMary Austin
When Joggi got thus far in his story, he began to cry and groan, and would not be pacified.
Rico and WiseliJohanna Spyri
However, the sight of the roses, overlapping the water-jug, pacified him; they smelt so sweet.
His MasterpieceEmile Zola
Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on continuing the argument.
The RepublicPlato
Only when Csar had been pacified was there silence to speak of Kate.
The ManxmanHall Caine
pacify
- to calm the anger or agitation of; mollify
- to restore to peace or order, esp by the threat or use of force
Word Origin for pacify
Word Origin and History for pacified
pacify
late 15c., "appease, allay the anger of (someone)," from Middle French pacifier "make peace," from Latin pacificare "to make peace; pacify," from pacificus (see pacific). Of countries or regions, "to bring to a condition of calm," c.1500, from the start with suggestions of submission and terrorization. Related: Pacified; pacifying.