MEANING
To make someone less angry, hostile, or resistant.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- mollify an opponent
- mollify an angry customer
On the page
The explanation mollified him until he noticed the missing signature.
She offered the refund to mollify the crowd, not to admit the allegation.
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Word forms
- Base
- mollify
- Past tense
- mollified
- Past participle
- mollified
- Present participle
- mollifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mollify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mollifying
- Present perfect
- have/has mollified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mollifying
- Past
- mollified
- Past continuous
- was/were mollifying
- Past perfect
- had mollified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mollifying
- Future
- will mollify
- Future continuous
- will be mollifying
- Future perfect
- will have mollified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mollifying
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: mollify; mollifies; mollified; mollified; mollifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: mollifies.
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