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Webster 1913 Edition
Placate
Webster 1828 Edition
Placate
PLA'CATE
,Verb.
T.
To appease or pacify; to conciliate.
Definition 2024
placate
placate
See also: plaĉate
English
Verb
placate (third-person singular simple present placates, present participle placating, simple past and past participle placated)
- (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (to calm): enrage
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to calm
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Italian
Verb
placate
- second-person plural present of placare
- second-person plural imperative of placare
- feminine plural past participle of placare
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
plācāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of plācō
References
- placate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- placate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “placate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.