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placate verb allay, appease, assuage, bring to terms, calm, conciliate, disarm, dulcify, heal the breach, humor, hush, make peace, mollify, pacificate, pacify, patch up a quarrel, placare, please, propitiate, quiet, reconcile, restore harmony, salve, satisfy, silence, smooth, soothe, still, win over See also: disarm, lull, mollify, pacify, propitiate, reconcile, soothe How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Jack Danforth of Missouri to head the investigation into who started the deadly fire at the Branch Davidian compound smartly placates her GOP critics and brings immediate credibility to the probe. A number of species shed their wings, and some flies release a chemical that placates their termite hosts when the termites lick it, explains Disney. SB 773, the "financial" privacy legislation recently voted out of the Banking & Finance Committee of the California State Assembly does nothing to promote consumer privacy and instead placates or creates loopholes for a handful of special interests, according to the California Bankers Association. |
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