placate

• Verb, das eine Handlung bezeichnet, mit der jemand weniger zornig oder feindselig gestimmt werden soll, besonders durch beschwichtigende Gesten oder Zugeständnisse.

A verb used to express the act of making someone less angry or hostile, especially by conciliatory gestures or concessions.

1. Calm or appeaseC1formal

   To make someone less angry or hostile by giving in to their demands or by soothing them.

   Besänftigen oder beschwichtigen

   • The manager tried to placate the angry customer with a full refund.
   • She placated her crying child with a lollipop.
   • The government's concessions were intended to placate the protesters.

   Synonymeappeaseassuagecalmconciliategentlemollifypacifypropitiatesoothe

   Antonymeagitateangerantagonizeenrageexasperategallincenseinfuriateprovokerile