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pacify
Part of speech: VerbTo calm or appease; as, to pacify an angry man; to free from war or violence; to restore to quiet.
Part of speech: Noun Part of speech: Past tensePacified.
Part of speech: Past participlePacifying.
Usage examples "pacify":- Didn't he try to pacify her by an apology of some sort?" - "Man and Wife", Wilkie Collins.
- It really looked as if nothing short of martial law and a strong body of troops could pacify the town. - "The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier", Edgar Beecher Bronson.
- Whatever Mr Merton felt, he did not say a great deal; he, however, endeavoured to pacify the enraged combatants, and ordered assistance to Harry to bind up the wound, and clean him from the blood which had now disfigured him from head to foot. - "The History of Sandford and Merton", Thomas Day.