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appease

/uh-peez/US // əˈpiz //UK // (əˈpiːz) //

抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ap·peased, ap·peas·ing.

    • : to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
    • : to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
    • : to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbsatisfy, pacify
Forms: appeased, appeases, appeasing

Examples

  • That came just days after Atkins amended the bill to appease opponents concerned it would increase real estate speculation by adding an owner-occupancy requirement.

  • The idea here is to appease disgruntled customers and boost the overall star rating, which can bolster sales velocity.

  • So we’re providing accounts from seven agents, many of whom describe the experience of being caught between abusive callers and corporate directives to appease.

  • Some critics have accused President Moon of appeasing Kim Jong Un.

  • The situation has left Adidas and numerous other companies trying to walk the line of appeasing China’s large and valuable audience of shoppers while professing a zero-tolerance policy for forced labor to customers in the US and Europe.

  • The more we appease, the more we indulge, the more emboldened the enemies of freedom become.

  • Or maybe Alibaba is doing what other companies are doing in China: gagging itself and its customers to appease the apparatchiks.

  • Teasers to Reverse Flash and Crisis on Infinite Earths will appease geeky fanboys.

  • Plus, on cable you no longer have to whitewash the story and appease the masses, so the narratives are getting more interesting.

  • They were drafting to build teams, not to appease fan bases or score easy ticket sales.

  • In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them.

  • Some affirm that he wrote to please royalty, but if so why did he not condemn the custom to appease the wrath of a sapient king.

  • This policy is necessary to appease the opposition that might be interposed in their behalf.

  • An angry controversy resulted, to appease which Theodosius the younger assembled the Council of Ephesus.

  • Andrea held up her hand to appease the patrician, whose exaggeration annulled his superiority.