placating

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

   Synonyms:

   pacify, appease, assuage, soothe, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, satisfy

   Antonyms:

   enrage

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