appeasing
uh pee zing
- v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- v overcome or allay
- v make peace with
- s intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich
- Everywhere, and especially in Europe, gullibility was nurtured by the fear that no power could stop the Communists, that the only alternatives were an appeasing coexistence or .
- Such tactics, however, have not pleased some on the hawkish right who fear that Obama is appeasing the Russians.
- Heart-Shaped Box isn't about appeasing fathers, and learning to love them, and seeing that they, too, are human beings and not monsters.