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
Mr. Rochester took breakfast with us in a gloomy old dressing-room, moody and taciturn, unpacified by sleep.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
“That is idle talk,” exclaimed the unpacified chief.
From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Francis B. Pearson
The interior of the island remains unpacified, as it consists of the said mountains.
On we go to Sacramento, surrounded by great ranches with vast herds of cattle and sheep feeding on the wild grasses; then on to San Francisco, the Golden Gate, and the unpacified Pacific.
From The Gentleman from Everywhere by James Henry Foss
