- 1pacify somebody to make someone who is angry or upset become calm and quiet synonym placate The baby could not be pacified. The speech was designed to pacify the irate crowd.
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- 2pacify something to bring peace to an area where there is fighting or a war a turbulent period before the country was pacified
pacify
verbNAmE//ˈpæsəˌfaɪ//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they pacify he / she / it pacifies
past simple pacified
-ing form pacifying
NAmE//ˌpæsəfəˈkeɪʃn//
noun [uncountable]See pacify in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: pacify