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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Placating.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
     akin to placere to please. See Please.]
     To appease; to pacify; to concilate. ``Therefore is he always
     propitiated and placated.'' --Cudworth.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Placating.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
     akin to placere to please. See Please.]
     To appease; to pacify; to concilate. ``Therefore is he always
     propitiated and placated.'' --Cudworth.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  placating
       adj : tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or
             granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the
             Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures";
             "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a),
              placative, placatory]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  placating
     vb.
     (present participle of en placate nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  placating
     vb.
     (present participle of en placate nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  placating
     vb.
     (present participle of en placate nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  placating
     vb.
     (present participle of en placate nocat=1)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Placating /plɐkˈeɪtɪŋ/
  الإسترضاء

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  placating /plɐkˈeɪtɪŋ/
  usmiřování

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  placating /plɐkˈeɪtɪŋ/
  beschwichtigend
   see: placate, placated, placates, placated

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]


  placating /plɐkˈeɪtɪŋ/
  1. engedékeny
  2. engesztelhetô
  3. békülékeny
  4. békítô
  5. kiengesztelô

From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]

/ˈpɫeɪˌkeɪtɪŋ/

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