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.
Continuing without stopping or interruption.
Continuing without interruption
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To become less intense or severe.
Become less intense
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A reduction in intensity, amount, or severity.
To release someone from blame, responsibility, or an obligation.
To reduce a fear, concern, or other troubling feeling.
Ease a troubling feeling
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To make a difficulty, burden, or discomfort less severe.
To improve an unfavorable condition or situation.
Providing a release of strong or pent-up emotions.
The quality of being easy to understand, perceive, or distinguish.
Ease of understanding
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To reduce hostility and gain goodwill by persuasion or resolving differences.
A substantial reduction in the number of people living in a place.
To become smaller or less important, or to make something so.
Dissatisfied with present circumstances or results.
Dissatisfied with the present
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Dissatisfied and inclined to complain.
To improve or increase a quality, value, or effect.
Improve a quality or effect
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An increase in intensity, scale, or seriousness.
A worsening of an existing problem or unpleasant condition.
To free from a difficulty, entanglement, or constraint.
To make a process or action easier.
Very attentive to details or demanding about cleanliness, taste, or standards.
Awkward or lacking social tact.
Continuing with little or no interruption.
To prohibit or stop by an authoritative order.
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