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Word Meanings - APPEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel ; as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose;

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To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel ; as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose; calm; allay; hush; soothe; tranquilize.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • ROUSE
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • REPRESSIBLE
    Capable of being repressed.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • SECURER
    One who, or that which, secures.
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • BETRAYAL
    The act or the result of betraying.
  • MOLLIFY
    1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as
  • SECURENESS
    The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISQUIETTUDE
    Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • DISQUIETLY
    In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
  • UNQUIET
    To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • CAPACIFY
    To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
  • TROUSE
    Trousers. Spenser.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.

 

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