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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. examples
(transitive) To appease (someone). quotations examples
Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press