MEANING
1. To reduce anger, anxiety, or dissatisfaction by satisfying a demand or offering reassurance.
2. To make concessions to an opposing power or aggressor in an attempt to prevent conflict.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- appease an angry crowd
- appease a critic
On the page
The promise appeased the crowd until they saw the locked gate.
She tried to appease him without pretending the damage was trivial.
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Related words
Word forms
- Base
- appease
- Past tense
- appeased
- Past participle
- appeased
- Present participle
- appeasing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- appease
- Present continuous
- am/is/are appeasing
- Present perfect
- have/has appeased
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been appeasing
- Past
- appeased
- Past continuous
- was/were appeasing
- Past perfect
- had appeased
- Past perfect continuous
- had been appeasing
- Future
- will appease
- Future continuous
- will be appeasing
- Future perfect
- will have appeased
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been appeasing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: appease; appeases; appeased; appeased; appeasing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: appeases.
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