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Synonyms for appease

to grant or have what is demanded by (a need or desire)

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As per tradition in each of the seven days, a team of male diviners go to the shrines to appease the gods with food, water and palm wine.
"I'm sorry, but very, very seriously, of course we should not appease that, of course we should not appease that."
'As you can see, all the sons and daughters of Ikorodu from far and near are rejoicing, it is like a homecoming where they come together to appease the gods at the beginning of the year that whatever they ask for shall be granted.
'My suggestion was to appease the side of the House leadership that there should be corrections to the Alvarez-approved version of the Road Board abolition,' Zubiri told reporters.
Both leaders vowed to speed up political efforts to appease the anti-Pakistan movement in Balochistan into laying down their arms and joining the mainstream.
'Oplan Tokhang is good but it's too late to appease the workers and labor groups who were deeply dismayed over non-signing of the labor-drafted EO addressing short-term, precarious work, endo and contractualization work scheme,' he said.
Chief executive, Jes Staley, pledged on Thursday to more than double dividends in a move to appease disgruntled shareholders.
The former USFK chiefs, however, warned of using the military exercises as a bargaining chip to appease North Korea.
MINISTERS cut subsidies for wind farms "to appease climate change sceptics", an MP claimed.
THE Government has cut subsidies for wind farms "to appease climate change sceptics", an MP has claimed.
He said the UK should "revel" in its way of life rather than "appease" extremists, and all who live in the country must sign up to its values.
But experts said VW will have to strike a careful balance to appease government regulators, make customers happy and avoid emptying the company cash box.
WITH the news that our iconic stadium, for me the best in the world, is to be called the Principality Stadium as of January 1, surely to appease the Welsh public, the sponsors and the Welsh Rugby Union, it would be better to call it the National Stadium of Wales - which the Millennium Stadium is after all.
National Conference ( NC) described the move as a biggest climbdown of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) to appease the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) and the Rashtriya Swavayamsevak Sangh ( RSS).
A landmark 110-page humane judgment of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has banned the age-old tradition prevailing in most areas of the hill state to sacrifice animals to "appease" various gods and goddesses in their pantheon.