appease
verbTo calm anger or satisfy demands, often by making concessions.
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Clear all filtersTo calm anger or satisfy demands, often by making concessions.
Requiring considerable effort or endurance.
Requiring sustained effort
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To stop resisting and accept another side's demands.
Intellectual and focused on thought rather than emotion.
To involve or require as a necessary part or consequence.
Demanding great care, effort, or precision.
A payment or demand imposed with severity or unfairness.
Unreasonably high or excessive, especially in cost or demand.
Obtaining something through threats or coercive pressure.
Very attentive to details or demanding about cleanliness, taste, or standards.
Domineering and expecting immediate obedience.
Noticeable in an unwelcome or intrusive way.
Trying to dominate others in an excessively forceful or arrogant way.
Excessively domineering
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Very thorough, exacting, or strictly applied.
A limited supply of something in relation to demand or need.
Requiring or involving vigorous effort.
Strict and demanding in requirements or application.
A final demand backed by a threatened consequence.
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