pacification

«pacification» in Mova's school dictionary: Making people calm or stopping them being angry — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (pacification — uncountable; formal)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Making people calm or stopping them being angry. tree →

2) (formal, history) Bringing peace to an area by force, often by an army, so that people stop fighting back. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history texts: an army's "pacification" of a region often meant violent control, so the word can hide harsh actions (a kind of euphemism). In everyday life the related word is pacify — calming a crying baby. Phrases: pacification of a region.

examples

• The army's pacification of the region was cruel. tree →
• Some history books use "pacification" to hide how violent the war was. tree →
• The pacification of the angry crowd took hours. tree →
• Pacification means making calm, sometimes by force. tree →
• The general wrote a report on the pacification campaign. tree →
• A dummy helps with the pacification of a crying baby (formal, jokey). tree →

note

Uncountable, formal. Verb: pacify (pacified, pacifying); related: pacifier (US: a baby's dummy), pacifist (someone against all war). In history, read "pacification" carefully — it may mean force was used.

In the corpora

• "Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pacification» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.