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
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
- 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.