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Pacify; Pacifying; Pacification (disambiguation)
pacify
(pacifies, pacifying, pacified)
1.
If you pacify someone who is angry, upset, or not pleased, you succeed in making them calm or pleased.
Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?...
= placate
VERB: V n
2.
If the army or the police pacify a group of people, they use force to overcome their resistance or protests.
Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels...
VERB: V n
• pacification
...the pacification of the country.
N-UNCOUNT
pacify
¦ verb (pacifies, pacifying, pacified)
1. quell the anger or agitation of.
2. bring peace to (a country or warring factions).
Derivatives
pacification noun
pacificatory adjective
Origin
C15 (earlier (ME) as pacification): from OFr. pacefier, from L. pacificare, based on pax, pac- 'peace'.
pacify
v. a.
1.
Conciliate, appease, give peace to, restore harmony to, tranquillize.
2.
Tranquillize, assuage, calm, still, quiet, lull, smooth, compose, moderate, hush, quell, lay, allay, soften, soothe, mollify, appease.
Wikipedia
Pacification
Pacification may refer to:
The restoration of peace through a declaration or peace treaty:
- Pacification of Ghent, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576
- Treaty of Berwick (1639), or Pacification of Berwick, signed on June 18, 1639 between England and Scotland
- Pacification sejm, one of several sessions of the Sejm, especially the one in 1736 concluding the civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Pacification of 1917, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands
A military or police action:
- Pacification of Algeria (1835-1903), French military operations which aimed to put an end to various tribal rebellions
- Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883), also Pacification of the Araucanía, the actions which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chile
- Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia (1930), a punitive action of Polish police against the Ukrainian minority in Poland
- Pacification of Manchukuo, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War (March 1932-1941)
- Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, the use of German military force to suppress Polish resistance during World War II
- Pacification of Tonkin, a military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam
- Pacification of Wujek, a strike-breaking action against miners in Katowice, Poland, 1981
- Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem or Pacification of Lombok in 1894
- Pacification of Libya, a military against by the Royal Italian Army against the Libyan resistance
An analytic approach to understanding the security-industrial complex:
A military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing control by a government over a population impacted and divided by insurgency.
- Hearts and Minds (Vietnam)
- Winning hearts and minds
A policing, military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing control by a government over a population impacted by violent crime.
- Pacifying Police Unit (Rio State, Brazil)
Other meanings:
- Violent Pacification an album by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
- Army of Cuban Pacification Medal, medal issued to members of the US occupation force in Cuba following the Spanish–American War (1906–1909)
Pronunciation examples for pacify
1. they could pacify the prisoners.
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2. adult males weaker, pacify them with this color pink,
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3. It's to pacify the village that he works in.
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4. rooms this color, you would pacify your opponents.
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5. I had a thing to try and pacify the water, like dividers,
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Examples of use of pacify
1. Harold Wilson thought he could pacify the region.
2. Peacekeepers have tried to pacify Somalia before, with tragic results.
3. Even the hardest of them was quick to pacify him.
4. "You cannot pacify someone with a gun." RICH CLABAUGH – STAFF
5. I was given double measures of drugs to pacify me.