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placates

placates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of placate.

Meaning of placate

Verb

placate (third-person singular simple present placates, present participle placating, simple past and past participle placated)

  1. (transitive) 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.1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC
    Antonyms:
    enrage

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What is placates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Placates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of placate.

Words near placates in the dictionary

  1. placatable
  2. placate
  3. placated
  4. placater
  5. placaters
  6. placates
  7. placating
  8. placatingly
  9. placation
  10. placations
  11. placative

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