pacify
pa suh fahy
- v cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- v fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)
The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia
- The police tried to pacify the crowd agitating against the hit and run case but the crowd became more and more restive till they set ablaze a police vehicle.
- Confident the surge would pacify Baghdad, bus driver Andalus Hammadi and his family returned from Syria last summer.
- The Iraqi-led military push to pacify Baghdad, Operation Forward Together, has run into fierce resistance from the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias.