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pacificar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • mitigate verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
  • pacify verb To calm down a person, place, or situation, ending anger, unrest, or conflict.

Senses

pacificar is used for these senses in English:

  • mitigate (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
  • pacify (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.

pacify — full definition

  1. verb To calm down a person, place, or situation, ending anger, unrest, or conflict.
  2. verb To appease or satisfy someone, often to stop them complaining.

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