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placation

/pley-keyt, plak-eyt/US // ˈpleɪ keɪt, ˈplæk eɪt //UK // (pləˈkeɪt) //

安置,安置工作,安顿,安抚

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pla·cat·ed, pla·cat·ing.

    • : to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inappeasement

Examples

  • The comfort of the ever-present digital existence translates to knowing others feel the same placation.

  • There was such a twang of temper in his voice that Crofts heard at once, and made a quick effort at placation.

  • As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.

  • I recognized at last how far Lucretia in her lonely agony was beyond any trite placation of mine.

  • For the placation of Bildad Rose there was news of a stable, not ruined beyond service, with hay in a loft, near the house.

  • In Smith's theory there is confusion between the two ideas of communion and expiation or placation.