Crossword-Solution: PLACATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Placate | n. | Same as Placard, 4 & 5. |
| Placate | v. t. | To appease; to pacify; to concilate. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “PLACATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| make (someone) stop feeling angry or upset | 1 answer |
| Throw a bone to | 1 answer |
| Soothe the anger of. | 1 answer |
| Quiet the anger of. | 1 answer |
| Proffer a soft answer. | 1 answer |
| Make less angry | 1 answer |
| Make conciliatory gestures toward | 1 answer |
| Give a sop to | 1 answer |
| Get to calm down, in a way | 1 answer |
| Make less hostile | 2 answers |
| Propitiate | 4 answers |
| ANGER (ant.) | 4 answers |
| DISTURB (ant.) | 10 answers |
| ANYTHING THAT SERVES TO PACIFY | 10 answers |
| conciliate | 17 answers |
| ARMOUR for body | 19 answers |
| Reconcile | 30 answers |
| Calm down | 31 answers |
| Mollify | 33 answers |
| Pacify | 35 answers |
| Appease | 35 answers |
| Soothe | 46 answers |
| Assuage | 46 answers |
| Pacific | 48 answers |
| Make amends | 60 answers |
| Calm | 117 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLACATE (5)
His own remorse and shame were wholly blotted from memory, and he could not understand why in the world he had been so afraid, nor why he had felt it so necessary to placate Laura.
Even his friends--and he had as many as he cared to have--had been drawn to him by the desire to placate him, to stand well where there was danger in standing ill.
His manner of sneering at what he called “parlor socialists” (though the phrase was not overwhelmingly new) had a power which made her wish to placate his company of well-fed, speed-loving administrators.
What made you so real to me was that you held this lofty theory with some force of conviction and with an admirable consistency.” It is with some such words translated into the proper shadowy expressions that I am prepared to placate Almayer in the Elysian Abode of Shades, since it has come to pass that, having parted many years ago, we are never to meet again in this world.
Many of the men, who knew that they were in danger of his big bear-paw when it reached out for the honey vats, even made efforts to placate him, to get on the friendly side of him.
Quotes with PLACATE (3)
So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order…
I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write. In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as ambitious as a novel, I have to constantly mutter, 'I'm not writing a masterpiece, I'm not writing a masterpiece.'This mantra lulls him into a kind of stupor so that he pays no attention to what I'm doing, because after all, I'm not claiming it's any good. Slowly, and secretly, on…
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 48 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).