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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ap·pease /əˈpiːz/ verb [transitive] formal  PPANGRYto make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want 平息;安抚,抚慰 They attempted to appease international opposition by promising to hold talks. 他们答应举行会谈,试图以此平息国际上的反对声音。appeasement noun [countable, uncountable] Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement towards Hitler in the 30s 30年代张伯伦对希特拉的绥靖政策→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
appeaseBut Stan was oddly unwilling to be appeased.Of a burning hunger that only she could appease.They had no public opinion to appease.Too often New Labour appeases and buys off opposing forces: this third-way strategy makes few friends or permanent changes.A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.Human rights activists accuse the United Nations of appeasing the militia.This was a clever attempt to appease the people, but it backfired.Chacon maintains that lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to appease the public amid growing hysteria, pinned the murders on Sharif.
Origin appease (1300-1400) Old French apaisier, from pais peace
ap·pease verbChineseSyllable
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appease
appease /əˈpiːz/ verb [transitive] formal
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old French
 Origin: apaisier, from pais 'peace'
to make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want:
    They attempted to appease international opposition by promising to hold talks.
—appeasement noun [uncountable and countable]:
    Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement towards Hitler in the 30s


ap·peaseBrE /əˈpiːz/ 🔊NAmE /əˈpiːz/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they appease BrE /əˈpiːz/ 🔊 NAmE /əˈpiːz/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it appeases BrE /əˈpiːzɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /əˈpiːzɪz/ 🔊past simple appeased BrE /əˈpiːzd/ 🔊 NAmE /əˈpiːzd/ 🔊past participle appeased BrE /əˈpiːzd/ 🔊 NAmE /əˈpiːzd/ 🔊 -ing form appeasing BrE /əˈpiːzɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /əˈpiːzɪŋ/ 🔊 (formal, usually disapproving) ~ sb to make sb calmer or less angry by giving them what they want 安抚;抚慰The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime. 普遍认为,这一举措是试图安抚批评政权的人。🔊🔊~ sb/sth to give a country what it wants in order to avoid war 绥靖(满足另一国的要求以避免战争) ap·pease·ment BrE /əˈpiːzmənt/ 🔊NAmE /əˈpiːzmənt/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a policy of appeasement绥靖政策