pacify

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English

Etymology

From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“I do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪfaɪ/, /ˈpæsəfaɪ/
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  • Homophone: passify

Verb

pacify (third-person singular simple present pacifies, present participle pacifying, simple past and past participle pacified)

  1. (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
  2. (transitive) To appease (someone).
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.

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