OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 3318

mollify

/ˈmɒlɪfaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aliviar
To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns.
mollify someone’s anger
apaciguar • calmar
To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
He tried to mollify the angry customer.