pacificate

present singular third person pacificates · participle present pacificating · participle past pacificated · past pacificated

1. archaictransitivesometimes non-native speakers' EnglishSynonym of pacify.

   Shall we not conclude that Minos had by now succeeded in pacificating the Aegean and ridding it of pirates?

   1981, Hesperia, volume 50, Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 333

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   Let me commend to readers this little scrap of Note; headed, ‘Methods of Pacificating Germany 1º. There is one ready method of pacificating Germany: That his Britannic Majesty should firmly button his breeches-pocket, “Not one sixpence more, Madam!”—and go home to his bed, if he find no business waiting him at home.[…]’

   1862, Thomas Carlyle, “Britannic Majesty Fights His Battle of Dettingen; and Becomes Supreme Jove of Germany, in a Manner”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XIV, page 699

   In abstraction you have a point, but in case of Iraq - please. It's not a China, it's not a Soviet Union from cold war. Russians have pacificated Chechenya - you could do it in Iraq. 1/3 of the country is on your side.

   2007 June 15, Tomasz Radko, “never reinforce failure”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves.coffeeshop (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026

   Synonyms: pacify