1. Intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
   "placating gestures"
   - appeasing, placative, placatory

1. Cause to be more favourably inclined; gain the good will of
   - pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, gentle, gruntle

See also: conciliative, conciliatory, placatingly, placation

Type of: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize [N. Amer], tranquillise [Brit], tranquillize

• doubly transitive verb
• doubly transitive verb form
• doubt
• doubtable
• doubter
• doubtful
• doubtfully
• doubtfulness
• doubting
• doubting Thomas
• doubtless
• doubtlessly
• douce
• douceur
• douche
• douche bag
• dough
• doughboy
• doughnut
• doughnut-shaped
• doughtily
• doughty
• doughy
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• Douglas Elton Fairbanks