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Settling down
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appeasing
Word definitions for appeasing in dictionaries
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 ...
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 , ...
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?