propitiateverb [ T ]
uk/prəˈpɪʃ.i.eɪt/us/prəˈpɪʃ.i.eɪt/formalto please and make calm a god or person who is annoyed with you:
In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
The radicals in the party were clearly sacked to propitiate the conservative core.
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Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- humour
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull
- lull sb into sth
- relaxation
- settle
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take things easy idiom
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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propitiation
noun [ U ] uk/prəˌpɪʃ.iˈeɪ.ʃən/us/prəˌpɪʃ.iˈeɪ.ʃən/