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What does placate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
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She attempts to placate him by giving him something to eat, but he sets the food down behind him because it is too hot.
Here's a picture from our visit to the Eden Project a couple of months ago to placate me for a little while.
She said her colleague said she could not deal with him that day and was eventually able to placate him.
Instead he denounced them and tried to placate the army, thus digging his own grave.
Such an answer cannot hope to placate the war's opponents, let alone satisfy the conspiracy theorists.
It took a lot to placate him but finally I did and promised I would print a correction and apology.

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