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[ verb ] cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Examples "She managed to mollify her angry boss" Used in print (The Nation, 193: 16...)Was not this dropped primarily in_order_to `` appease '' the Chinese - especially after `` Khrushchev 's '' humiliating `` surrender to the West in canceling the German peace-treaty deadline of December 31 ? (Ann Ritner, Seize a Nettle....)The Abernathy furnace consumed fuel like a giant ravenous maw that had to be appeased by hurling tons of coal into its evil red depths , and no_matter_how much coal they put_in the house remained cold . |
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[ verb ] make peace with
Synonyms Used in print (The Wall Street Journal,...)But he rejects , perhaps a_little too sweepingly , the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta_Conference in February , 1945 . |
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