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third-person singular simple present appeases, present participle appeasing, simple past and past participle appeased
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred). quotations examples
'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library
To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of. examples