Propitiate

Definition: Propitiate

Propitiate

Verb

1. Make peace with.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "propitiate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Synonym: Propitiate

Atonement

Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.

Content

Render content; Adjective: set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at ease, set one's mind at ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate, disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify.

Deity

Atone, redeem, save, propitiate, mediate;

Excitability

Compose, appease; (moderate); propitiate; repress; (restrain); render insensible; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability; master one's feelings.

Forgiveness

Beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; Noun: conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel; (pacify); let the wound heal.

Love

Get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.

Pacification

Verb: pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay; (moderate); reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.

Pity

Raise pity, excite pity; n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.

Worship

Propitiate, offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms.

Crosswords: Propitiate

Albanian

pajtoj (attune, bring together, engage, moderate, reconcile, Square), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), zbus (allay, amortise, amortize, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, calm down, domesticate, ease, macerate, relax, soften), qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), marr me të mirë (Blandish, coax, wheedle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إستعطف (entreat), ‏إسترضى (appease, conciliate, placate, reconcile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умилостивявам (conciliate), спечелвам доверието на, предразполагам към себе си. (various references)

Czech

usmířit (atone, placate), uchlácholit (coax, hush, mollify, quieten, soothe). (various references)

Farsi 

تسکین دادن (Appease, Mitigate, Pacify, Palliate, Placate, Quell, Salve, Smooth), خشم رافرونشاندن , استمالت کردن . (various references)

Finnish

lepyttää (appease, conciliate). (various references)

French

se concilier. (various references)

German

versöhnen (accommodate, appease, conciliate, placate, reconcile, to reconcile), günstig stimmen. (various references)

Greek 

εξευμενίζω (placate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפיס (appease, conciliate, make peace, mollify, pacify, placate, reconcile, soothe). (various references)

Hungarian

megbékít (to appease, to propitiate, to reconcile), kiengesztel (expiate, placate, to conciliate, to placate, to propitiate). (various references)

Indonesian

mengambil hati (adulate), mendamaikan (bring together, conciliate). (various references)

Italian

propiziarsi, propiziare. (various references)

Manx

lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), jannoo foayragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

opitiatepray

Portuguese

propiciar, pacificar (conciliate, pacify), tornar propício, aplacar (appease, lay, mollify, placate), apaziguar (appease, make peace, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet). (various references)

Romanian

împãca (adjust, agree, comfort, conciliate, placate, reconcile), îmblânzi (curb, daunt, domesticate, gentle, humanize, manage, mellow, milden, pacify, reclaim, subdue, tame, train). (various references)

Russian 

умилостивить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umilostiviti. (various references)

Spanish

propiciar, hacer propio, aplacar (appease, placate, quench, satisfy). (various references)

Swedish

blidka (appease, conciliate, placate, sweeten). (various references)

Turkish

yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), gönlünü almak (appease, blandish, coax, conciliate, mollify, placate, soften). (various references)

Ukrainian

утихомирювати (calm, hush, pacificate), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, quell, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), здобути прихильність (ingratiate). (various references)

Welsh

dyhuddo (console). (various references)

amica, amicas, amico. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "propitiate": propitiated, propitiates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Propitiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: propitate, propitie, propituate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: partite, patriot, periapt, pottier, tippier, trippet.

-4 letters: attire, opiate, patter, pattie, pipier, pirate, pitier, potpie, potter, priapi, protea, protei, ratite, rotate, tapper, tappet, teapot, tipper, tippet, tiptoe, tiptop, topper.

-5 letters: aport, apter, atrip, irate, oater, opera, orate, ottar, otter, paper, pareo, pater, patio, peart, petit, petti, petto, pieta, piper, pipet, pipit, prate, ratio.

+1 letter: propitiated, propitiates.

+2 letters: precipitator.

+3 letters: precipitation, precipitators.

+4 letters: pithecanthropi, precipitations, superpatriotic.

+5 letters: interpopulation, physiotherapist, plenipotentiary, preimplantation, superpatriotism.