OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 16431

placate

/pləˈkeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aplacar
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
The gleam of the light on the paper placated his professional anger, and he wrote rapidly, the final dash of his signature curling the paper up in a triangular tear.
To-day a deity who should require bleeding sacrifices to placate him would be too sanguinary to be taken seriously.
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