Antonyms for appease
əˈpizap·pease

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1. appeaseverb

   Antonyms:
   antagonize

2. appeaseverb

   To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

   to appease the tumult of the ocean

   Antonyms:
   antagonize

   Synonyms:
   calm, quell, quiet, pacify, lull, still, placate

3. appeaseverb

   To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.

   They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

   Synonyms:
   mollify, propitiate

   Antonyms:
   antagonize

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1. appease

   Allay and alleviate are closely kindred in signification, and have been often interchanged in usage. But, in strictness, to allay is to lay to rest, quiet or soothe that which is excited; to alleviate, on the other hand, is to lighten a burden. We allay suffering by using means to soothe and tranquilize the sufferer; we alleviate suffering by doing something toward removal of the cause, so that there is less to suffer; where the trouble is wholly or chiefly in the excitement, to allay the excitement is virtually to remove the trouble; as, to allay rage or panic; we alleviate poverty, but do not allay it. Pacify, directly from the Latin, and appease, from the Latin through the French, signify to bring to peace; to mollify is to soften; to calm, quiet, or tranquilize is to make still; compose, to place together, unite, adjust to a calm and settled condition; to soothe (originally to assent to, humor) is to bring to pleased quietude. We allay excitement, appease a tumult, calm agitation, compose our feelings or countenance, pacify the quarrelsome, quiet the boisterous or clamorous, soothe grief or distress. Compare ALLEVIATE.

   Antonyms:
   agitate, arouse, excite, fan, kindle, provoke, rouse, stir, stir up

   Synonyms:
   allay, alleviate, calm, compose, mollify, pacify, quiet, soothe, still, tranquilize

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1. appease

   Antonyms:
   excite, provoke, aggravate, exasperate, inflame, embitter, incense, intensify, stimulate, kindle

   Synonyms:
   pacify, assuage, mitigate, conciliate, propitiate, moderate, satisfy, stay, allay, quiet, soften, calm, compose, soothe, hush, cool, tranquilize

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1. • Reconcile
   • Satisfy

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1. pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntleverb

   cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

   "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

   Synonyms:
   mollify, conciliate, quell, gentle, relieve, lenify, stay, placate, quench, allay, ennoble, settle, gruntle, palliate, accommodate, pacify, temper, assuage, propitiate, alleviate, slake, make up, entitle, patch up, reconcile, season

2. quell, stay, appeaseverb

   overcome or allay

   "quell my hunger"

   Synonyms:
   conciliate, last out, delay, bide, stick, squelch, lenify, stay, placate, quell, gentle, abide, ride out, gruntle, persist, mollify, rest, pacify, assuage, stick around, propitiate, stay on, stay put, quench, remain, outride, continue, detain

3. propitiate, appeaseverb

   make peace with

   Synonyms:
   stay, lenify, mollify, gentle, gruntle, propitiate, quell, pacify, placate, assuage, conciliate

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1. appeaseverb

   Synonyms:
   conciliate, pacify, tranquilize, calm, propitiate, assuage, mollify, reconcile, placate, mitigate

How to use appease in a sentence?

1. Rory McIlroy:

   I don’t think it’s going to be perfect, but again, I think it was a prudent move on the tour’s part to try to appease some people that were getting their heads turned by other things.

2. Dan Gainor:

   China’s content control means companies in a free nation are ceding control to a government that has no belief in those freedoms. Look at the remake of ‘Red Dawn.’ The villains were changed from Chinese to North Koreans because China wasn’t happy, somehow a nation of 25 million invades a nation of 320 million – all to appease Communist Party idiots in Beijing. China is using its markets to buy propaganda into the U.S.

3. Jamal Khashoggi:

   The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion.

4. Greg Murphy:

   We can never believe the Iranians one way or the other, and it’s really, really a bad policy to try and appease the Iranians because they lie right through their teeth.

5. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!”

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