pacifies

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

With a harp communicated to him by Gudrun he pacifies them all but one, which stings him to the heart, and thus Gunnar dies.

But it amused, it pacified me, as prayer to their self-invented deities pacifies the devout.

The priest who pacifies is as natural as the fear he seeks to assuage—as natural as man himself.

Alcinous pacifies him with gentle words, and proceeds to withdraw all his previous claims extolling Phæacian athletic skill.