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What does placate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
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Instead he denounced them and tried to placate the army, thus digging his own grave.
Here's a picture from our visit to the Eden Project a couple of months ago to placate me for a little while.
People think that if they can placate the violent persons in their midst, then they won't get hurt.
He didn't want to argue so it was easier just to placate her until she went away.
She said her colleague said she could not deal with him that day and was eventually able to placate him.
Even though he and I didn't get along, I definitely did those things in order to placate the family.

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