Word Meanings - APPEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel ; as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose;

Additional info about word: APPEASE

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel ; as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose; calm; allay; hush; soothe; tranquilize.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPEASE)

• Allay
• soothe
• alleviate
• repress
• mitigate
• quiet
• moderate
• appease
• compose
• soften
• pacify
• mollify
• assuage
• tranquilize
• palliate
• culm
• Calm
• Smooth
• allay
• still
• Pacify
• Appease
• conciliate
• calm
• tranquillize
• Propitiate
• Conciliate
• secure
• win
• reconcile
• Quiet Allay
• hush
• lull

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPEASE)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to APPEASE)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• MOLLIFY
  1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.