appeasing

Definitions

The act of pacifying or placating someone by acceding to their demands.

The policy of making concessions to a potential aggressor in order to maintain peace.

Examples

The manager tried appeasing the angry customers by offering them full refunds for their meals.

Appeasing the dictator only emboldened him to demand even more territory from his neighbors.

Synonyms

conciliatory placating pacifying mollifying propitiatory soothing accommodating

Antonyms

provocative antagonistic confrontational aggravating defiant hostile belligerent