Sample Sentences for
placate
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    Croy had found the food packets and purifier in her knapsack and was making food with water from the fall, apparently trying to placate Shay.  (source)
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    This dead man is bound up with my life, therefore I must do everything, promise everything in order to save myself; I swear blindly that I mean to live only for his sake and his family, with wet lips I try to placate him--and deep down in me lies the hope that I may buy myself off in this way and perhaps even get out of this; it is a little stratagem:  (source)
    placate = calm someone who is or may become angry
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    "What do you think, pendejo? That I can't manage a bunch of women by myself?" He shouted obscenities at the scared boy... "You have to understand," Patria said in a placating voice. "We're worried about our husbands."  (source)
    placating = intended to calm someone who is angry
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    So, whenever you need leaves or wood from a tree in which a Bowtruckle lodges, it is wise to have a gift of woodlice ready to distract or placate it.  (source)
    placate = calm someone who may become angry
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    Meanwhile, we will eliminate the threat of a curse by placating the witches and honoring a portion of their old agreement with Elias Bram.  (source)
    placating = calming someone who is or may become angry or concerned
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    I began placatingly, and stretched out my hand.†  (source)
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    After she'd finished eating—and once Jonah had been placated—Ronnie retired to her room.  (source)
    placated = calmed
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    "No, Uncle Max, of course not," Paul said in a placatory tone.†  (source)
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    Nox, now behind Grave, made to do the same, but Grave started cursing at him, and Nox stopped, lifting his hands in a gesture of placation.†  (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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    Lewis talked the same way; he was a placater, a peacemaker, the kind of person who would hold your hand on an airplane if you were scared, able to quote verbatim the statistics about how it was the safest thing, honestly.†  (source)
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    Conway thought this good advice, but Mallinson was still unplacated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unplacated means not and reverses the meaning of placated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    she'll win by trying to placate her big ol' angry boy:  (source)
    placate = calm someone who is angry
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    Olaf held up a placating hand and even put down his knife.  (source)
    placating = intended to calm someone who is angry or concerned
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