PLACATE


Meaning of PLACATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pləkeɪt, AM pleɪkeɪt ]

( placates, placating, placated)

If you placate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry. ( FORMAL )

He smiled, trying to placate me...

‘I didn’t mean to upset you,’ Agnew said in a placating voice.

= appease

VERB : V n , V-ing

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