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    My apology did not pacify her.
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    Discovering, while scuffling with an enemy at a circus, that adults would give quarters to fighting kids to pacify them, Louie declared a truce with the enemy and they cruised around staging brawls before strangers.  (source)
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    His father was pacified, and the levy paid, with credit for next year.  (source)
    pacified = calmed
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    It made him sick to pacify the Rat Man, but it was the only thing he could think to say to buy himself time.  (source)
    pacify = calm
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    And for the moment the spirit of the clan was pacified.  (source)
    pacified = calmed
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    And three of them I left behind to carry out additional pacification measures.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    But Sam placed a pacifying hand on her arm.  (source)
    pacifying = calming
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    The king, being obliged to send back his captive, enters into a furious contest with Achilles, which Nestor pacifies; however, as he had the absolute command of the army, he seizes on Briseis in revenge.†  (source)
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    Conway said pacifyingly: "Well, we'll all admit you couldn't help the typhoon."†  (source)
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    The influence which the bigotry of one female,6 the petulance of another,7 and the cabals of a third,8 had in the contemporary policy, ferments, and pacifications, of a considerable part of Europe, are topics that have been too often descanted upon not to be generally known.†  (source)
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    No one could pacify him.  (source)
    pacify = calm
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    She refused to be pacified, but I had shown myself in a favorable and Christian light.  (source)
    pacified = calmed
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    A century ago the island would have been driven by the bands of dolphins brought here originally during the Hegira, but the Hegemony pacification program during the Siri Rebellion had killed off most of the aquatic mammals and now the islands wandered listlessly, carrying their cargo of Web tourists and resort owners.†  (source)
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