Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to appease
Participle: appeased
Gerund: appeasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | appease |
| you | appease |
| he;she;it | appeases |
| we | appease |
| you | appease |
| they | appease |
Perfect
| I | have appeased |
| you | have appeased |
| he;she;it | has appeased |
| we | have appeased |
| you | have appeased |
| they | have appeased |
Past
| I | appeased |
| you | appeased |
| he;she;it | appeased |
| we | appeased |
| you | appeased |
| they | appeased |
Pluperfect
| I | had appeased |
| you | had appeased |
| he;she;it | had appeased |
| we | had appeased |
| you | had appeased |
| they | had appeased |
Future
| I | will appease |
| you | will appease |
| he;she;it | will appease |
| we | will appease |
| you | will appease |
| they | will appease |
Future Perfect
| I | will have appeased |
| you | will have appeased |
| he;she;it | will have appeased |
| we | will have appeased |
| you | will have appeased |
| they | will have appeased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | appease |
| you | appease |
| he;she;it | appease |
| we | appease |
| you | appease |
| they | appease |
Perfect
| I | have appeased |
| you | have appeased |
| he;she;it | have appeased |
| we | have appeased |
| you | have appeased |
| they | have appeased |
Imperfect
| I | appeased |
| you | appeased |
| he;she;it | appeased |
| we | appeased |
| you | appeased |
| they | appeased |
Pluperfect
| I | had appeased |
| you | had appeased |
| he;she;it | had appeased |
| we | had appeased |
| you | had appeased |
| they | had appeased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would appease |
| you | would appease |
| he;she;it | would appease |
| we | would appease |
| you | would appease |
| they | would appease |
Perfect
| I | would have appeased |
| you | would have appeased |
| he;she;it | would have appeased |
| we | would have appeased |
| you | would have appeased |
| they | would have appeased |
Imperative
| you | appease |
| we | Let's appease |
| you | appease |
Verbs conjugated like 'appease'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'appease'
appeare,
appeach,
appeal,
appeall,
appear,
appears,
appete,
appetise,
appose,
appraise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bring someone down
- abate, depress, pacify, soften, soothe, tranquilize
- to sacrifice principles to make peace
- pacify
- calm
- quiet, pacify, soften, alleviate, soothe, abate, content, ease
- satisfy
- mollify, placate, assuage, allay, propitiate, sate, slake
- conciliate
- moderate, accommodate, concede, compromise, reconcile, propitiate
Antonyms
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- allay, assuage, beguile, bewitch, calm, captivate, charm, comfort, conciliate, console, defuse, disarm, enchant, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, relieve, settle, soothe, enrage
- calm
- excited, agitated, inflamed, angry
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1330, from O.Fr. apeser "to pacify, appease," from the phrase a paisier "bring to peace," from a- "to" + pais, from L. pacem (nom. pax) "peace." Appeasement (1439) first recorded 1919 in international political sense; not pejorative until failure of Chamberlain's policy toward Germany in 1939 (Methods of appeasement was Chamberlain's description of his policy).
2. From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).
Sample Sentences
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to appease the tumult of the ocean
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'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!' [1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.
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Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has suggested climate change is “probably doing good” in a speech in London in which he likened policies to combat it to “primitive people once killing goats to appease the volcano gods” . [2017 October 9, Karl Mathiesen, quoting Tony Abbott, “Tony Abbott says climate change is 'probably doing good'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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It's been slowly hacked back, amid fears of escalating costs, by politicians who have also increased those costs by adding expensive structures such as tunnels to appease opponents. [2024 October 30, Philip Haigh, “Poor planning and lack of clarity damages rail projects”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 50:]