conciliate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they conciliate | |
| he / she / it conciliates | |
| past simple conciliated | |
| past participle conciliated | |
| -ing form conciliating |
- conciliate somebody
to make somebody less angry or more friendly, especially by being kind and pleasant or by giving them something （尤指通过和蔼友善或送给某物来）平息…的怒火，抚慰，安抚 Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally meaning ‘to gain’): from Latin conciliat- ‘combined, gained’, from the verb conciliare, from concilium ‘convocation, assembly’, from con- ‘together’ + calare ‘summon’.