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单词 mollify
释义 Verb: mollify  'móli`fI
  1. Cause to be more favourably inclined; gain the good will of
    "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
    - pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, placate, gentle, gruntle 
  2. Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
    - temper, season 
  3. Make less rigid or softer

Derived forms: mollifying, mollifies, mollified

See also: mollification

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

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