English-Portuguese translations for appease

• apaziguar
  Se a intenção é apaziguar a Sérvia, não resultará. If it is designed to appease Serbia, it will not work.
  Na Europa devíamos ter aprendido a lição: não podemos apaziguar aqueles que nos querem destruir. We should have learnt the lesson in Europe that you cannot appease those who wish to destroy you.
  O objectivo desta iniciativa é, obviamente, desorientar e apaziguar os trabalhadores que tencionam votar NÃO à Constituição Europeia. The objective of this initiative is obviously to disorientate and appease the workers intending to vote NO to the European Constitution.

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