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Synonyms for placate
ˈpleɪ keɪt, ˈplæk eɪtpla·cate

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. placateverb

    To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.

    Synonyms:
    mollify, appease, satisfy

    Antonyms:
    enrage

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 3 votes

  1. pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntleverb

    cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

    "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

    Synonyms:
    mollify, conciliate, quell, gentle, relieve, lenify, stay, quench, allay, ennoble, settle, gruntle, palliate, accommodate, appease, pacify, temper, assuage, propitiate, alleviate, slake, make up, entitle, patch up, reconcile, season

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "placate":

    appease, assuage, pacify, allay, defuse, calm

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  1. Charles King:

    Periodically over the course of the last four months, I have seriously questioned some of the things Dr. Birx has said when she's with the President or representing the President, there have been times when Birx has gone much further to placate the President than I think is reasonable and I just hope it doesn't hurt her reputation in the long term.

  2. The Times piece:

    Sure, the Clinton campaign wants to placate the base. But if Clinton’s recent positions are pandering, this is pandering with a purpose, and without an obvious cost. She’s saying everything she can to make the left happy — without backing herself into a left-wing corner. Where’s the downside in chiding Republicans on voting rights?

  3. Lisa McClain:

    That’s money the Russians are using to fight the war in Ukraine, that could stop, and we could cripple them today, but Biden is too worried about placating to the progressives. I think we should placate to the Americans and the people of Ukraine.

  4. Walter Lippmann:

    Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

  5. Jose Payme:

    We're completely exhausted, we've been working day and night for two months to placate this fire that's so strong, and this drought that's so strong. It's impossible.


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