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Word entry · 6 letters

pacify

Best crossword clue

"Make peaceful"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpæsɪfaɪ/Part of speech verbSorted acfipyStarts with PEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)

Word origin

From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“to do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: peacify, repacify, allay, locarnize
  • Their orders were to pacify the province by destroying resistance.
  • Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.

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