0 past simple and past participle of appease
1 to prevent further disagreement in arguments or war by giving to the opposing side an advantage that they have demanded:
Where the moderates coaxed, appeased and conciliated, the radicals preferred to cajole, to threaten and to force.
Usually bliss occurs when desires are temporarily appeased and the common mental diffuseness is forgotten.
The new treaty appeased both the agrarian lobby and heavy industry as well as export-orientated light industry.
For a long time the sea howls and the river replies, but little by little, the winds are appeased and the sea is calmed.
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.
A dissatisfied group that expresses discontent with the current hierarchical arrangement may be appeased by a grant of some degree of local autonomy.
Although tensions were ultimately appeased, the result was political polarisation, institutional incoherence and fragile governance by ad hoc policy-making, the president increasingly governing by executive decree.
Those who are drunk with power are not easily appeased.
