appease
verb

- to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to soothe
- to satisfy or relieve
- to pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle

noun = appeasement

The American Heritage Dictionary

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OOPS!

One day in 2000, at the height of an epidemic scare in New York, First Lady Hillary Clinton attempted to APPEASE worried New Yorkers that she was aware of the problem.

“I have been concerned about malaria for many years”, she declared “this is something that is not just coming under my radar screen.”

Clinton was later informed that malaria is a tropical disease. The disease then threatening New York state was encephalitis*.

*Gehirnentzündung

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SYNONYMS
to reduce the agitation or anger of (someone)

agree with, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, APPEASE, arbitrate, assuage, attenuate, becalm, bring back together again, bury the hatchet, butter up, calm down, chasten, clear the air with, come to terms with, comfort, compensate, conciliate, console, cool off, damp down, de-escalate, dulcify, gladden, gratify, humor US, humour UK, hush, impose peace upon, iron out, kiss and make up, make friends, make happy, make harmonious, make less intense, make matters up, make nice, make peace, make peace between, make peaceful, make peace with, make up, mediate, meet halfway, meliorate, mellow, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, patch things up, placate, play down, play up to, please, pour oil on troubled waters, propitiate, put a damper on, put a lid on, put down, put the lid on, put to rights, quieten down, ratchet down, re-establish friendly relations between, reconciliate, resolve differences between, restore friendly relations between, restore harmony, restore peace, salve, set at ease, smooth down, smooth someone’s ruffled feathers, soft-pedal, solace, soothe, sort out, square off, subdue, take the edge off, take the sting out, tone down, wind down, win over, win the affection of

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