0 past simple and past participle of placate
1 to stop someone from feeling angry:
Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements.
Secondly, to avoid conflict, carers placated the person with dementia and gave in to them, even if it delayed the completion of a task.
Above all else, its shareholders must be placated and its share price upheld.
The racialists in this country will not be placated; all they will do will be to step up their campaign of hate.
These interests have been placated, and now they are left only with this.
Are women to be placated by this plethora of platitudes over the last 30 years?
I recognise that sometimes the spirit of nationalism must be placated in order eventually that democracy may be attained.
Attempting to please everybody results in the majority tending always to lose out, no matter what its members think, so that the minority is placated.
It seems that every sectional interest which has made itself vociferous enough has been placated.
