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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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It took about two centuries to pacify the province, and indeed not until after 1854 did the Miao fully acquiesce in their fate.
This, it was believed, would pacify psychotic patients and relieve extreme neurotic symptoms.
If you need to pacify one of these doshas, these aroma blends are a convenient and very pleasant way to balance your environment.
The new conversation must be about how to achieve stability, not how we can forcibly pacify the place.
She paces the room with her baby close to her chest, murmuring quietly against her ear to pacify her.
You cannot win the hearts of naughty nine-year-olds by drawing cartoons that pacify their politically correct parents.

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