Verb

• S: (v) pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of) "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
• S: (v) temper, season, mollify, moderate (make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else) "she tempered her criticism"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) mollification [Related to: mollify] (a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered)
• W: (n) mollification [Related to: mollify] (the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined) "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
• W: (n) moderator [Related to: moderate] (someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence)
• sentence frame
• S: (v) mollify (make less rigid or softer)