mollify

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English - Turkish
{f} yatıştırmak
sakinleştirmek
yumuşat
yumuşatmak
{f} gönlünü almak
teskin
dindirmek

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{i} teskin
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{i} dindirme
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{i} yatıştırma
English - English
To appease, pacify, gain the good will of

The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.

To ease a burden; make less painful; to comfort
to soothe
{v} to soften, assuage, appease, quiet
{f} calm, soften, pacify, relieve, assuage
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
make less rigid or softer
To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground
To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm
To appease, gain the good will of
If you mollify someone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry. The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups. = placate. to make someone feel less angry and upset about something = placate (mollifier, from mollificare, from mollis )

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1. To calm in temper or feeling; soothe. See Synonyms at pacify.2. To lessen in intensity; temper.3. To reduce the rigidity of; soften
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{n} the act of softening, mitigation
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{n} what softens, mitigates or pacifies
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a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
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The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening
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past of mollify
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