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All placate synonyms

pla·cate
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verb placate

  • calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
  • humouring — humor.
  • humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • lay back — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • cool out — to relax and cool down
  • dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
  • make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
  • assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
  • dulling — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • kiss and make up — be reconciled
  • gentling — Present participle of gentle.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • mollify — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
  • defuse — If you defuse a dangerous or tense situation, you calm it.
  • conciliate — If you conciliate someone, you try to end a disagreement with them.
  • humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • dulcify — to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
  • cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
  • ease up — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
  • balmed — simple past tense and past participle of balm.
  • mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
  • compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
  • comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
  • content — The contents of a container such as a bottle, box, or room are the things that are inside it.
  • make peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
  • arbitrate — When someone in authority arbitrates between two people or groups who are in dispute, they consider all the facts and make an official decision about who is right.
  • fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
  • honied — containing, consisting of, or resembling honey: honeyed drinks.
  • make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
  • come to terms — to reach acceptance or agreement
  • co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
  • becalm — to calm down
  • hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
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