propitiate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they propitiate | |
he / she / it propitiates | |
past simple propitiated | |
past participle propitiated | |
-ing form propitiating |
- propitiate somebody
to stop somebody from being angry by trying to please them synonym placate使息怒 Word Originlate Middle English (as propitiation): from Latin propitiat- ‘made favourable’, from the verb propitiare, from propitius ‘favourable, gracious’.