pacify
verb (used with object)
unpacified
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a word derived from
pacify.
Example Sentences
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The usual method, called a "cordon and search," is to widely encircle an unpacified village with U.S. troops, through which South Vietnamese soldiers, police and pacification teams pass to deal directly with the villagers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next generation made vicarious penance, and preferred the enactment of Catholic emancipation to the alternative of civil war; and then wondered in its turn that Ireland still remained unpacified.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
“That is idle talk,” exclaimed the unpacified chief.
From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Francis B. Pearson
When, for many months of cloudless weather, the hard, unwinking sun of Sandy Bar had regularly gone down on the unpacified wrath of these men, there was some talk of mediation.
From Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories by Bret Harte
Because these do not have the peace and tranquillity required, they suffer great hardships and wrongs from those who are in rebellion and unpacified.
