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What does pacify mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
  2. (transitive) To appease (someone).
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She paces the room with her baby close to her chest, murmuring quietly against her ear to pacify her.
This, it was believed, would pacify psychotic patients and relieve extreme neurotic symptoms.
Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
You cannot win the hearts of naughty nine-year-olds by drawing cartoons that pacify their politically correct parents.
The new conversation must be about how to achieve stability, not how we can forcibly pacify the place.
As an institution, school has been used over the years to pacify, Christianize, and Europeanize the native population.

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