MEANING
To appease someone, especially a powerful person or a deity, in hope of gaining favor.
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She left salt at the threshold to propitiate the spirit blamed for the knocking.
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Word forms
- Base
- propitiate
- Past tense
- propitiated
- Past participle
- propitiated
- Present participle
- propitiating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- propitiate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are propitiating
- Present perfect
- have/has propitiated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been propitiating
- Past
- propitiated
- Past continuous
- was/were propitiating
- Past perfect
- had propitiated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been propitiating
- Future
- will propitiate
- Future continuous
- will be propitiating
- Future perfect
- will have propitiated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been propitiating
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