0 present participle of appease
1 to prevent further disagreement in arguments or war by giving to the opposing side an advantage that they have demanded:
Promoters and agents seem to accept this blame as part of their appeasing duty.
The rearmament programme ironically reinforced this preference for maintaining the status quo and appeasing both business and labour.
Governments were able to worry less about protecting themselves and could turn to appeasing powerful civilian interest groups.
In several parts of the province, authorities hastily revoked it, without however succeeding in appeasing the rebels.
But by arguing for the occasional need to make exceptions to the laws, the argument also goes some way toward appeasing the opposing radical position that opposes rhetoric.
Is it the case that we are appeasing our conscience by having formulated such a resolution?
But they are only falsely appeasing their guilty conscience.
We cannot buy peace by appeasing an enemy at the expense of our friends.
