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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 (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)Thus at the same time that William_Henry_Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana_Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe , Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North_American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)The old nightmare which had caused him so many wakeful hours came charging in on him once_more , only this time he could n't pacify it with a sleeping_pill and send it away . |
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