Pla·cate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated p. pr. & vb. n. Placating.] To appease; to pacify; to concilate. “Therefore is he always propitiated and placated.”
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placating
adj : tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or
granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the
Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures";
"an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a),
placative, placatory]