mollify
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/icons/point.icon PACIFY, APPEASE, PLACATE, MOLLIFY, PROPITIATE, CONCILIATE mean to ease the anger or disturbance of.
PACIFY suggests a soothing or calming.
e.g. pacified by a sincere apology
APPEASE implies quieting insistent demands by making concessions.
e.g. appease their territorial ambitions
PLACATE suggests changing resentment or bitterness to goodwill.
e.g. a move to placate local opposition
MOLLIFY implies soothing hurt feelings or rising anger.
e.g. a speech that mollified the demonstrators
PROPITIATE implies averting anger or malevolence especially of a superior being.
e.g. propitiated his parents by dressing up
CONCILIATE suggests ending an estrangement by persuasion, concession, or settling of differences.
e.g. conciliating the belligerent nations
verb (mollifies, mollifying, mollified) with object
appease the anger or anxiety of (someone):
〈人〉をなだめる, 慰める; 〈感情〉を和らげる, 静める
e.g. nature reserves were set up around the power stations to mollify local conservationists.
rare reduce the severity of (something); soften:
e.g. the women hoped to mollify the harsh wilderness environment.
DERIVATIVES
mollification |ˌmäləfəˈkāSH(ə)n| noun
mollifier |ˈmäləˌfīr| noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘make soft or supple’): from French mollifier or Latin mollificare, from mollis ‘soft’.