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mollify

/mol-uh-fahy/US // ˈmɒl əˌfaɪ //UK // (ˈmɒlɪˌfaɪ) //

劝解,劝慰,抚慰,劝说

Related Words

mitigate缓解,减轻,减轻影响,缓和placate调和,劝慰,安抚,劝解appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息assuage抚慰,劝慰,抚平,安抚relieve纾解,纾缓,缓解,纾解了lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低quell熄灭,平息,遏止,平息下来lull忽悠,冷清,忽冷忽热,冷淡alleviate减轻,纾解,缓解,缓和pacify安抚,抚平,平定,抚慰ameliorate缓和,改善,缓解,缓和气氛allay缓解,安抚,缓和,劝说blunt直言不讳,直率的,钝的,直率temper节制,回火,脾气,锻炼lighten减轻,淡化,减淡,减弱compose构成,组成,构成了,撰写moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的conciliate调解,劝解,和解,调停ease缓解,减轻,舒适度,舒适dulcify钝化,掺假,掺入,掺假的

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mol·li·fied, mol·li·fy·ing.

    • : to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
    • : to mitigate or reduce; soften: to mollify one's demands.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpacify, soothe
Forms: mollified
Synonyms
allay缓解,安抚,缓和,劝说alleviate减轻,纾解,缓解,缓和ameliorate缓和,改善,缓解,缓和气氛appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息assuage抚慰,劝慰,抚平,安抚blunt直言不讳,直率的,钝的,直率lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低lull忽悠,冷清,忽冷忽热,冷淡mitigate缓解,减轻,减轻影响,缓和pacify安抚,抚平,平定,抚慰placate调和,劝慰,安抚,劝解quell熄灭,平息,遏止,平息下来relieve纾解,纾缓,缓解,纾解了temper节制,回火,脾气,锻炼abate消减,削减,缩减,减轻calm平静,平息,平静的,平静下来compose构成,组成,构成了,撰写conciliate调解,劝解,和解,调停cool酷,冷却,酷酷的,清凉cushion垫子,坐垫,靠垫,缓冲decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌diminish减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱dulcify钝化,掺假,掺入,掺假的ease缓解,减轻,舒适度,舒适lighten减轻,淡化,减淡,减弱mellow醇厚的,醇厚,醇美,醇美的moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的modify修改,更改,改动,改装propitiate劝解,劝慰,劝告,劝说quiet安静,安静的,宁静,静reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小soften变得柔和,变得柔软,变得柔和了,变得柔和起来sweeten甜味剂,甜食,甜味,甜味的tranquilize安抚,宁神,安定,安定化fix up整理,修整,修理,修理好patch things up修补,打补丁,补过,补缀take sting out去除刺痛,去除刺痛感,拔除刺痛,拔除刺痛感
Antonyms
aggravate加重,恶化,变本加厉,变本加厉地agitate搅拌,鼓动,搅拌器,煽动excite激动人心,使人兴奋,激动人心的,激动incite煽动,鼓动,挑动,挑起increase增加,提高,增长,增intensify强化,加大,加强,加紧irritate刺激性,刺激,恼人的,烦人provoke挑动,挑衅,挑起,撩拨upset心烦意乱,心乱如麻,烦乱,心烦意乱的worry担心,忧虑,担忧,烦恼worsen加剧,恶化,更加恶化,加重anger愤怒,怒气,怒,愤慨develop发展,开发,发展的,发育enlarge扩大,扩大范围,扩大规模,扩大化expand拓展,扩充,扩大,扩展extend延伸,延长,扩展,延续grow增长,成长,长,壮大prolong延长,延续,延展,延长时间raise提高,抬高,抬起,抬起来trouble麻烦,麻烦的事,烦恼,困难depress压抑,沮丧,沮丧的,压抑的exasperate激怒了,激怒,使劲,使劲地harass骚扰,扰乱,骚扰他人,骚扰别人

Examples

  • Last year ProPublica wrote about the world of work-at-home customer service, spotlighting a largely unseen industry that helps brand-name companies shed labor costs by outsourcing the task of mollifying unhappy customers.

  • For $62,500, the county could move the statue and just maybe satisfy — or at least mollify — all sides.

  • The Buccaneers’ ability to recruit and mollify Brady while winning a championship illustrated a new line teams may have to straddle.

  • Other students argue that the discovery of remains cannot fully mollify public consciousness surrounding the case.

  • Meanwhile, on Friday, Holder made a round of calls to Capitol Hill in an attempt to mollify concerned lawmakers.

  • The appointments of Al-Sisi and Mekki are no doubt intended to mollify such concerns.

  • He was actually soft as mush, straining to mollify Hispanics without roiling his own nativist base.

  • So Obama was sending out Biden to further mollify the gay community without having to actually take a stand himself.

  • Meanwhile the Athenian and Rhodian envoys got hold of the consul and tried by ingenious arguments to mollify his anger.

  • This, of course, did not tend to mollify the spirit of the man to whom it was written, or to make him gracious towards his wife.

  • This treatise was presented to Prince Maurice; but it did not mollify the indignation he had conceived against the Remonstrants.

  • We shall see if this will mollify the tone of the Times which ill-treated poor Lord Grey shamefully yesterday morning.

  • His explanation that he was Bellerophon, the stick Pegasus, and the cats the three heads of the Chimra failed to mollify me.

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