[verb] [T] [formal] - to please and make calm (a god or person who is annoyed with you)In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.The radicals in the party were clearly sacked to propitiate the conservative core.
PROPITIATE
Meaning of PROPITIATE in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012