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Definition of placate in English: placateverb pləˈkeɪtˈplakeɪtˈpleɪkeɪt [with object]Make (someone) less angry or hostile. 平息；安抚，抚慰 they attempted to placate the students with promises 他们试图以许诺来安抚学生。 Example sentencesExamples - Which are deserving and important welfare issues or just the easiest to pick on and likely to placate a few voters?
- This doesn't placate anyone or calm things down or keep order.
- She attempts to placate him by giving him something to eat, but he sets the food down behind him because it is too hot.
- Even though he and I didn't get along, I definitely did those things in order to placate the family.
- Then out for a few drinks to appease that little drunken imp in my cranium, he was finally placated and I settled in for my first good sleep of 2005.
- Such an answer cannot hope to placate the war's opponents, let alone satisfy the conspiracy theorists.
- Eventually, he is placated and leaves the scene.
- This seemed to placate her, and I finally won my release with a promise to pay next time.
- People think that if they can placate the violent persons in their midst, then they won't get hurt.
- I managed to placate both physician and parent by saying I would transport her to hospital myself.
- Here's a picture from our visit to the Eden Project a couple of months ago to placate me for a little while.
- Take a saucer of milk to placate him and you might just escape unscathed.
- It placated my brother and me for hours, despite the chaos going on around us.
- It took a lot to placate him but finally I did and promised I would print a correction and apology.
- He didn't want to argue so it was easier just to placate her until she went away.
- It adopts no postures of phoney charms to placate its visitors.
- She said her colleague said she could not deal with him that day and was eventually able to placate him.
- In the meantime they can placate their opponents on the left and reward their supporters in the state sector.
- She eventually storms off into another part of the house and he follows in an attempt to placate her.
- That is something that not only will placate the fans; it is a trait that delights their manager.
Synonyms appease, pacify, mollify, propitiate, assuage, calm down, soothe, humour, reconcile, disarm, win over, make peace with pacify, calm, calm down, appease, mollify, soothe, win over, quiet, conciliate, propitiate, make peace with, humour
Derivativesadjective pləˈkeɪtɪŋˈpleɪˌkeɪdɪŋ Intended to make someone less angry or hostile. 平息；安抚，抚慰 David put his hands up in a placating gesture Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's not your fault,’ she said in what she hoped was a placating tone.
- Raymond spread his hands out before him in a placating gesture.
- ‘I'm sure it'll be fine,’ he said with a placating hand on my arm.
adverb pləˈkeɪtɪŋlipləˈkeɪdɪŋli ‘I was just saying,’ said the second placatingly, getting out a heavy key. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Sure you do Jay,’ she told him placatingly and he stuck out his lower lip in an obvious pout.
- ‘Girls, girls,’ he said placatingly as he entered.
noun pləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n Such a university cares more about placating students than it does about enlightening them, even when the placation jeopardizes the pursuit of higher learning. Example sentencesExamples - The need for consensus and placation is a particularly human perversion of science, but it happens all too often because office and personal politics make it necessary.
- With a brother like mine, placation soon becomes a necessary part of life.
- But this is largely a hypothetical concern, given the reality of the court processes involved and the oft-stated placations of potential claimants that public access would be preserved even if such claims were successful.
- Katherine did not look impressed by his efforts of placation.
OriginLate 17th century: from Latin placat- 'appeased', from the verb placare. Rhymesabate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of placate in US English: placateverbˈplākātˈpleɪkeɪt [with object]Make (someone) less angry or hostile. 平息；安抚，抚慰 they attempted to placate the students with promises 他们试图以许诺来安抚学生。 Example sentencesExamples - Which are deserving and important welfare issues or just the easiest to pick on and likely to placate a few voters?
- She attempts to placate him by giving him something to eat, but he sets the food down behind him because it is too hot.
- She eventually storms off into another part of the house and he follows in an attempt to placate her.
- People think that if they can placate the violent persons in their midst, then they won't get hurt.
- In the meantime they can placate their opponents on the left and reward their supporters in the state sector.
- She said her colleague said she could not deal with him that day and was eventually able to placate him.
- I managed to placate both physician and parent by saying I would transport her to hospital myself.
- Then out for a few drinks to appease that little drunken imp in my cranium, he was finally placated and I settled in for my first good sleep of 2005.
- Here's a picture from our visit to the Eden Project a couple of months ago to placate me for a little while.
- Even though he and I didn't get along, I definitely did those things in order to placate the family.
- Such an answer cannot hope to placate the war's opponents, let alone satisfy the conspiracy theorists.
- It took a lot to placate him but finally I did and promised I would print a correction and apology.
- This doesn't placate anyone or calm things down or keep order.
- It placated my brother and me for hours, despite the chaos going on around us.
- Eventually, he is placated and leaves the scene.
- Take a saucer of milk to placate him and you might just escape unscathed.
- It adopts no postures of phoney charms to placate its visitors.
- He didn't want to argue so it was easier just to placate her until she went away.
- This seemed to placate her, and I finally won my release with a promise to pay next time.
- That is something that not only will placate the fans; it is a trait that delights their manager.
Synonyms appease, pacify, mollify, propitiate, assuage, calm down, soothe, humour, reconcile, disarm, win over, make peace with pacify, calm, calm down, appease, mollify, soothe, win over, quiet, conciliate, propitiate, make peace with, humour
OriginLate 17th century: from Latin placat- ‘appeased’, from the verb placare. |