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mollify::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate |
| Type of | tranquillize, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, calm, still, tranquilize, tranquillise |
| Derivation | mollification |
She managed to mollify the angry customer.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | soften |
Examples of mollify
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The pope's promise failed to mollify other advocates for abuse victims, however.
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Thus Ford could partly mollify the conservative Reagan wing by tapping Connally.
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Samson's description of the roster shakeup as an upgrade failed to mollify fans.
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To mollify them, Charles dropped in on a student dance at their club in Valletta.
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Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi.
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It splits the development into different tasks, helping mollify recruiting costs.
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It was unclear Wednesday whether the changes would mollify Democratic critics.
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He wanted to mollify the industries that have a vested interest in the status quo.
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It's called compromise, and, no, it would hardly mollify ideological purists.
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- Pacify: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
- Temper: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
- Make less rigid or softer
- (mollification) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
- (mollification) pacification: the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
- In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth functions with special properties, used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. ...
- To ease a burden; make less painful; to comfort; To appease, pacify, gain the good will of
- (mollified) soothed; appeased; assuaged
- To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease; to mitigate or reduce; soften: to mollify one's demands.
