0 to calm or satisfy (a person, desire etc) usually by giving what was asked for or is needed -- tilfredsstille; berolige, dempe
The polysemic coding of the word 'family' works to appease different target audiences.
The rearmament programme ironically reinforced this preference for maintaining the status quo and appeasing both business and labour.
These examples show how courts find it difficult to disregard localism and apply universalism, and thus use their discretion to appease localism.
By doing this, the local communities and the local authorities, who are constantly haunted by dreams of access to forestry ' royalties ', could be politically appeased.
The state set out to appease women rather than to provoke them.
These colonists feared the earth spirits of the new land and tried to appease them by giving them offerings and by treating them with respect.
The appalling realities of child labour were sublimated into an ideal that would appease the audience.
For a long time the sea howls and the river replies, but little by little, the winds are appeased and the sea is calmed.
