APPEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appease mean? 

• APPEASE (verb)
  The verb APPEASE has 3 senses:

1. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

2. overcome or allay

3. make peace with

  Familiarity information: APPEASE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPEASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they appease    ... he / she / it appeases   
Past simple: appeased   
Past participle: appeased   
-ing form: appeasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate

Context example:

She managed to mollify the angry customer

Hypernyms (to "appease" is one way to...):

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to appease Sue

Derivation:

appeasable (capable of being pacified)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overcome or allay

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

appease; quell; stay

Context example:

quell my hunger

Hypernyms (to "appease" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make peace with

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

appease; propitiate

Hypernyms (to "appease" is one way to...):

conciliate; make up; patch up; reconcile; settle (come to terms)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

appeasable (capable of being pacified)

appeaser (someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands)

 Context examples 

“Now,” she said, “is your pride appeased, you madwoman? Now has he made atonement to you—with his life! Do you hear?—His life!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hunger he had known; and when he could not appease his hunger he had felt restriction.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nothing could console and nothing could appease her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Madam Mina still sleep and sleep; and though I did have hunger and appeased it, I could not waken her—even for food.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Transcontinental owed him four months' salary, and he knew that the printer must be appeased before the associate editor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Let your anger be appeased, since instead of this dish you come upon an old friend and comrade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When my hunger was appeased, I directed my steps towards the well-known path that conducted to the cottage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Yes, but you won't do it," answered Laurie, who wished to make up, but felt that his outraged dignity must be appeased first.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But I want to set your heart at ease as to Mrs. S. My representation, you see, has quite appeased her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)