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placate
1[ pley-keyt, plak-eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures:
to placate an outraged citizenry.
Synonyms: ,
placate
2[ plak-eyt, -it ]
noun
- a piece of plate armor of the 15th to the 18th century protecting the lower part of the torso in front: used especially as a reinforcement over a breastplate.
placate
/ ±è±ôəˈ°ì±ðɪ³Ù /
verb
- tr to pacify or appease
Derived Forms
- ±è±ô²¹Ëˆ³¦²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è±ô²¹î€ƒc²¹³Ù·±ð°ù noun
- ±è±ô²¹Â·³¦²¹Â·³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô [pley-, key, -sh, uh, n], noun
- ³Ü²Ô·±è±ô²¹î€ƒc²¹³Ù·±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of placate1
Example Sentences
And both put ideology aside and turned pragmatic in their machinations to placate Trump, despite his long history of demeaning Mexico and Mexican immigrants.
For the most part, employees calmly placated or humored them, with some ignoring the trio or asking them to leave.
“I wouldn’t say that Apple is doing this simply to placate the president or anybody else, they actually do need to be spending a large part of this money,†Sorkin said.
Trump’s deep vision for religion is to placate anyone who attends the “Six Flags Over Jesus Church of the Evangelical Righteous Gemstones†while never going to church or reading the Bible.
It’s no easy job, appeasing the mercurial U.S. president while placating a nationalist base hypersensitive about U.S. meddling.
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