mollify.
To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
Meaning & usage
To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
mollify someone’s anger
attempt to mollify
To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
He tried to mollify the angry customer.
To soften; to make tender.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -ify.
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