pacified
绥靖了,绥靖,平定的,平定
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pac·i·fied, pac·i·fy·ing.
- : to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- : to appease: to pacify one's appetite.
- : to reduce to a state of submission, especially by military force; subdue.
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I was skeptical to believe the hype of such studies, but I couldn’t deny that being in nature is a pacifying experience I cherish.
At present, it looks unlikely that these two organizations are going to be so easily pacified.
Through lack of them a considerable number of those already pacified and who pay tribute remain to be converted.
Scarcely was Genoa pacified when the general was confronted by a much more serious event.
The observation passed momentarily unnoticed, for Maude, whom Lady Hartledon had been obliged to release, would not be pacified.
Their rising was not accompanied by the cruelties which disgraced Whiteboyism, and was speedily pacified.
But the avenging wrath of the male was not so easily pacified.