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Settling down
Answer for the clue "Settling down ", 9 letters:
appeasing
Word definitions for appeasing in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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) , placating , placative , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of appease English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appease \Ap*pease"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appealed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Appeasing .] [OE. apesen, apaisen, OF. apaisier, apaissier, F. apaiser, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. pais peace, F. paix, fr. L. pax, pacis. See Peace .] To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state ...
Usage examples of appeasing.
If Chamberlain was right and honorable in appeasing Hitler in September 1938 by sacrificing Czechoslovakia, was Stalin wrong and dishonorable in appeasing the Fuehrer a year later at the expense of Poland, which had shunned Soviet help anyway?