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# pacification

«pacification» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making people calm or stopping them being angry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pacification — uncountable; formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Making people calm or stopping them being angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#m1)

2) (formal, history) Bringing peace to an area by force, often by an army, so that people stop fighting back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history texts: an army's "pacification" of a region often meant violent control, so the word can hide harsh actions (a kind of euphemism). In everyday life the related word is pacify — calming a crying baby. Phrases: pacification of a region.

### examples

- The army's pacification of the region was cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x1)
- Some history books use "pacification" to hide how violent the war was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x2)
- The pacification of the angry crowd took hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x3)
- Pacification means making calm, sometimes by force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x4)
- The general wrote a report on the pacification campaign. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x5)
- A dummy helps with the pacification of a crying baby (formal, jokey). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x6)

### note

Uncountable, formal. Verb: pacify (pacified, pacifying); related: pacifier (US: a baby's dummy), pacifist (someone against all war). In history, read "pacification" carefully — it may mean force was used.

### In the corpora

- ["Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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