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# propitiate

«propitiate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make a god, spirit or angry person calm and friendly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (propitiate, propitiates, propitiated, propitiating)

### meaning for a pupil

To make a god, spirit or angry person calm and friendly again, often by gifts or sacrifices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/propitiate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in myths, people give offerings to gods and spirits to propitiate them

### examples

- The sailors gave gifts to propitiate the sea god. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/propitiate/#x1)
- They made a sacrifice to propitiate the angry goddess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/propitiate/#x2)
- The king tried to propitiate the giant with gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/propitiate/#x3)
- Before the voyage, they sacrificed a lamb to propitiate Neptune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/propitiate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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