Usually means: Make calm, soothe aggressive feelings.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pacify: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pacify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pacify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pacify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pacify: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pacify, pacify: Wordnik
  7. pacify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pacify: Wiktionary
  9. pacify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pacify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pacify: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pacify, pacify: Dictionary.com
  13. pacify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pacify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pacify: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pacify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pacify: Rhymezone
  18. pacify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pacify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pacify: Free Dictionary
  21. pacify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pacify: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pacify: Legal dictionary

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  1. pacify: Encyclopedia

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  1. pacify: Medical dictionary

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.A.C.ify, Pacify: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pacifiable as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
verb:  (transitive) To appease (someone).

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