1
[ 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 .

2
[ verb ] overcome or allay

Synonyms

stay quell

Examples

"quell my hunger"

Used in print

(Ernest Becker, Zen: A Rational Critique. New York: W.W....)

To the Zen monk the universe is still populated with `` spiritual_beings '' who have_to be appeased .

Related terms

meet

3
[ verb ] make peace with

Synonyms

propitiate

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 .

Related terms

reconcile appeaser

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