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apaciguar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • appease verb To calm someone down or make them less angry, especially by giving them what they want.
  • assuage verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
  • conciliate verb To acquire, to procure.
  • defuse verb To remove the fuse or detonator from an explosive device.
  • mollify verb To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
  • pacify verb To calm down a person, place, or situation, ending anger, unrest, or conflict.

Senses

apaciguar is used for these senses in English:

  • appease To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
  • assuage (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).
  • conciliate (transitive) To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate; to propitiate.
  • defuse (transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
  • mollify To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
  • pacify (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.

assuage — full definition

  1. verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
  2. verb To satisfy a need or appetite, such as hunger or thirst.

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