Usually means: Calms or pacifies someone's anger.
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  1. placates: Merriam-Webster
  2. placates: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. placates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. placates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (placate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
▸ Also see placate


Opposite:
antagonizes, provokes, agitates, irritates, annoys



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Opposite:
antagonizes, provokes, agitates, irritates, annoys




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