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# appease

«appease» in Mova's school dictionary: **to calm them or stop them being angry by giving them what…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (appease, appeases, appeased, appeasing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To appease someone is to calm them or stop them being angry by giving them what they want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#m1)

2) (history) To appease an aggressive country is to give in to its demands to avoid war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#m2)

3) To appease hunger or thirst is to satisfy it (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history (appeasement of Hitler before the Second World War, the Munich Agreement 1938), stories and everyday life (appeasing a crying toddler). It often suggests giving in too easily.

### examples

- Mum gave the toddler a biscuit to appease him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x1)
- The king tried to appease the angry crowd with gifts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x2)
- Britain and France tried to appease Hitler in 1938. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x3)
- Giving in to a bully rarely appeases them for long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x4)
- The dragon could not be appeased with gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x5)
- A sandwich appeased his hunger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x6)
- His hunger finally appeased, he raised his head to thank his kind benefactress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: «appeasement». Often has a negative feel: it can mean giving in to bad behaviour.

### In the corpora

- [A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.428/)
- [His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.507/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «appease» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/appease/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.