Usually means: Make someone less angry, calm.
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  1. placate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. placate: Merriam-Webster
  3. placate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. placate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. placate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. placate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Placate, placate: Wordnik
  8. placate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. placate: Wiktionary
  10. placate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. placate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. placate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Placate, placate: Dictionary.com
  14. placate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. placate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Placate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Placate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. placate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. placate: Rhymezone
  20. placate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. placate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. placate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. placate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. placate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. placate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. placate: Legal dictionary

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  1. placate: Encyclopedia

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  1. placate: Urban 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.

Similar:
appease, assuage, mollify, lenify, pacify, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, placify, pacificate, more...

Opposite:
aggravate, irritate, exasperate

Types:
soothe, calm, mollify, appease, pacify, quiet, still, more...

Phrases:
words to placate, opposite of placate, to placate, more...

Colors:
    pale blue,     soft pink,     soothing teal,     calm beige,     tranquil aqua, more...


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Similar:
appease, assuage, mollify, lenify, pacify, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, placify, pacificate, more...

Opposite:
aggravate, irritate, exasperate

Types:
soothe, calm, mollify, appease, pacify, quiet, still, more...

Phrases:
words to placate, opposite of placate, to placate, more...

Colors:
    pale blue,     soft pink,     soothing teal,     calm beige,     tranquil aqua, more...



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