pacify

From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“I do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.

pacify (third-person singular simple present pacifies, present participle pacifying, simple past and past participle pacified)

(transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
(transitive) To appease (someone).
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
  Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.
- 2000, “The Hollow”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
  Screaming feed me here
  Fill me up again
  Temporarily pacifying

bring peace, ending fighting

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: խաղաղել (hy) (xaġaġel), խաղաղեցնել (hy) (xaġaġecʻnel)
Asturian: apanguar
Bulgarian: умиротворявам (bg) (umirotvorjavam)
Czech: uklidnit (cs) pf
French: pacifier (fr)
Galician: pacificar (gl)
German: befrieden (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍉𐌽 (gafriþōn)
Greek: κατευνάζω (el) (katevnázo)
Ido: pacigar (io)
Irish: ceansaigh
Italian: pacificare (it)
Japanese: 鎮める (ja) (shizumeru)
Latin: pācificō, pācō (la)
Maori: whakamārie, whakamāriri, whakamāhaki, whakamahuru, whakarangimārie, whakangehe
Old English: stillan
Persian: خواباندن (fa) (xwâbândan) (of fighting or anger, informal), فرونشاندن (fa) (foru-nešândan) (of anger, formal)
Portuguese: pacificar (pt), apaziguar (pt)
Sicilian: appaciari
Spanish: pacificar (es), apaciguar (es)
Swedish: pacificera (sv)

appease

Bulgarian: укротявам (bg) (ukrotjavam), успокоявам (bg) (uspokojavam)
Czech: uklidnit (cs) pf, utišit (cs) pf, uchlácholit (cs) pf, chlácholit (cs) impf
Danish: please add this translation if you can
German: friedlich stimmen
Maori: whakaepaepa

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