0 past simple and past participle of pacify
1 to cause someone who is angry or upset to be calm and satisfied:
2 to bring peace to a place or end war in a place, often using military force:
Granaries in ' hostile ' territory were emptied, while villages, once ' pacified ', were required to provide food to sustain the occupying army.
The threatened withdrawal of scholarships may have pacified students of other faculties, but these 'bourgeois' students often had alternative sources of income.
It is that whole area that has to be pacified and freed from fear.
In the bullring, there are bulls that will simply not be pacified.
It has been pacified in the last twenty-five years.
This is the method adopted—what is the least sop that the working classes will accept by which they will be pacified for the time being?
The details of that occupation, in view of the fact that the country has never been pacified, it would be inappropriate to discuss.
They might even be pacified; they might even understand that those behind them and those in front of them desperately mind about the principle.
