apaciguar
Meanings
Verb
1. to pacify, to appease, to defuse, to placate, to mollify, to ease, to allay, to assuage (transitive)
2. to calm down (reflexive)
Examples7
En este mundo, el odio nunca se apacigua con odio.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world.
La música ha apaciguado mis nervios.
Music has settled her nerves.
Yo apaciguo mi sed con un frío vaso de agua.
I quench my thirst with a cold glass of water.
Me tomé un vaso de cerveza para apaciguar mi sed.
I had a glass of beer to quench my thirst.
Los disturbios civiles no mostraban indicios de apaciguarse.
The civilian unrest is showing no signs of abating.
Ellos apaciguaron su sed en el manantial.
They satisfied their thirst at the spring.