Pacify

['pæsɪfaɪ] or ['pæsə'fai]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); 'The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia'.

(verb.) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; 'She managed to mollify the angry customer'.

校對:潘西--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.

查理校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Conciliate, appease, give peace to, restore harmony to.[2]. Tranquillize, assuage, calm, still, quiet, lull, smooth, compose, moderate, hush, quell, lay, allay, soften, soothe, mollify.

艾达整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Appease, conciliate, calm, still, soothe, quiet, tranquillize

ANT:Exasperate, agitate, excite, irritate, rouse, provoke

編輯:雷金纳德

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make peaceful: to appease: to bring back peace to: to calm; to soothe.—adjs. Pac′ifiable that may be pacified; Pacif′ic peacemaking: appeasing: peaceful: mild: tranquil.—n. the ocean between Asia and America so called by its discoverer Magellan because he sailed peacefully over it after weathering Cape Horn.—adj. Pacif′ical pacific (obs. except in phrase Letters pacifical letters recommending the bearer as one in peace and fellowship with the church—also Letters of peace Pacific).—adv. Pacif′ically.—v.t. Pacif′icāte to give peace to.—ns. Pacificā′tion the act of making peace esp. between parties at variance; Pacif′icātor Pac′ifier a peacemaker.—adj. Pacif′icātory tending to make peace.

整理:泰勒