English-French translations for appease

• apaiser
  Est-ce pour apaiser les intérêts économiques locaux? Is it to appease local economic interests?
  Si cela est destiné à apaiser la Serbie, cela ne fonctionnera pas. If it is designed to appease Serbia, it will not work.
• assouvir
• contenter
  L'on peut donc se demander si Frontex ne doit pas se contenter de jouer un rôle de paratonnerre afin d'apaiser les citoyens européens. You might therefore ask whether Frontex is not just having to act as a lightning conductor to appease the citizens of Europe.
• rassurer
  Monsieur le Président, pour rassurer le commissaire et les autres collègues, je ne suis partisan, je le déclare, ni des déficits, ni de l' augmentation de la dette publique, ni de l' inflation. Mr President, so as to appease the Commissioner and the other honourable Members, may I state for the record that I am not a fan of deficits, of increasing public debt or of inflation.

Definition of appease

• To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred
• To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of

Examples

• to appease the tumult of the ocean
• They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings

Related words

• appeased
• appeasement
• appeaser
• unappeased
• appeasement of Hitler