What is another word for appeased?

Pronunciation: [ɐpˈiːzd] (IPA)

Appeased is an emotion when someone is calmed or placated after feeling agitated or upset. There are different words that can be used to convey the same meaning as appeased. For instance, pacified means to assure someone and make them feel better about a situation or someone's action. Soothed suggests providing comfort or relief to someone who is stressed or anxious. Assuaged denotes the act of easing someone's pain or distress or alleviating someone's fears. Mitigated suggests lessening the severity of someone's outrage or resentment. People can use these synonyms interchangeably depending on the context of the situation.

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Usage examples for Appeased

What gave to Betty such realization as she at the time got-it was not much-was mainly Mrs. Venables' anxiety, which must so hurriedly be appeased.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
But the terrible beast killed both, and afterwards, having appeased its hunger, scented water and tore the bags to pieces.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
And the children, having appeased their thirst and hunger and changed their clothes, slept as though slain, during the whole of the following day; the people in their caravan did the same.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Famous quotes with Appeased

  • Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.
    Randolph
  • The Left cannot be appeased. It can only be smashed.
    Curtis Yarvin
  • Bullies — political bullies, economic bullies, and religious bullies — cannot be appeased; they have to be opposed with courage, clarity, and conviction. This is never easy.
    Bill Moyers

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