placate

• Verbo usado para indicar a ação de tornar alguém menos irritado, zangado ou hostil, especialmente por meio de gestos conciliatórios ou concessões.

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.

   Acalmar ou apaziguar

   • 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.

   Sinônimosappeaseassuagecalmconciliategentlemollifypacifypropitiatesoothe

   Antônimosagitateangerantagonizeenrageexasperategallincenseinfuriateprovokerile