| 单词 | placate |
| 释义 | placate (once / 1215 pages) v When a husband shows up with flowers after he's fought with his wife, he's trying to placate her. If you placate someone, you stop them from being angry by giving them something or doing something that pleases them. If your little sister is mad that the dog ate her favorite teddy bear, you could placate her by buying her an ice cream cone. A near synonym for placate is appease. The origin of placate is Latin placare "to calm or soothe." The related Latin verb placere is the source of English please. WORD FAMILYplacate: placable, placated, placates, placating, placation, placative, placatory+/implacable: implacably/placable: implacable/placating: placatingly/placation: placations/placative: placatively USAGE EXAMPLESBut the crowd of pensioners in Athens on Thursday night was cynical about his promise to placate them with a one-off Christmas bonus. Reuters(Dec 16, 2016) Worried personally and concerned about placating a nervous Warner Bros., Los Angeles Times(Dec 03, 2016) Rather than trying to placate an angry legislator, Bloch defended NSF’s peer review process, considered the gold standard for identifying the best research proposals. Science Magazine(Dec 01, 2016) v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of Syn|Hyper appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize make calm or still |
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