appease
part of speech
verb (appease, appeases, appeased, appeasing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To appease someone is to calm them or stop them being angry by giving them what they want. tree →
2) (history) To appease an aggressive country is to give in to its demands to avoid war. tree →
3) To appease hunger or thirst is to satisfy it (formal). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to calm someone's anger with a gift; the old text uses it for Jacob soothing Esau. Interpretation: Jacob's gift to Esau is read by the tradition as both a wise attempt at peace and a lesson in preparing for a hard meeting through gifts, prayer and readiness. In the primary lessons: Used in history (appeasement of Hitler before the Second World War, the Munich Agreement 1938), stories and everyday life (appeasing a crying toddler). It often suggests giving in too easily.
examples
- and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.' For he said: 'I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.' (Torah GEN.32.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth. (Writings JOB.20.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Mum gave the toddler a biscuit to appease him. tree →
- The king tried to appease the angry crowd with gifts. tree →
- Britain and France tried to appease Hitler in 1938. tree →
- Giving in to a bully rarely appeases them for long. tree →
- The dragon could not be appeased with gold. tree →
- A sandwich appeased his hunger. tree →
- His hunger finally appeased, he raised his head to thank his kind benefactress. tree →
note
Regular verb. Noun: «appeasement». Often has a negative feel: it can mean giving in to bad behaviour.
In the corpora
- A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
- His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «appease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.