pacifying

Verb

pacify (third-person singular simple present pacifies, present participle pacifying, simple past and past participle pacified)

1. (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending (or suppressing) war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
   • Near-synonyms: peacify, repacify, allay, locarnize

   Synonyms:

   peacify, repacify, allay, locarnize

2. (figuratively, transitive) To mollify, placate or soothe (someone or something).
   • As to your frequent remarks in your letters about pacifying my friend, I have done everything I could and tried every expedient; but he is inveterate against you to a surprising degree, on what suspicions, though I think you have been told, you shall yet learn from me when you come.1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 11
3. (figuratively, transitive) To appease (someone).
   • Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   placate