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Definition: Appeasing |
AppeasingAdjective1. Tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "appeasing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: AppeasingSynonyms: appeasing(a) (adj), placating (adj), placative (adj), placatory (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Appeasing |
| English words defined with "appeasing": appeasement ♦ calming ♦ Pacific Ocean, placating, placative, placatory. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "appeasing": Appease. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Investigative reporter David Rose documents the links so many on the Left deny exist, so they can continue appeasing this monster as their ilk appeased Hitler. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Appeasing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Appeasing" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "appeasing": ever-appeasing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dog appeasing pheromone | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "appeasing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 姑息 (Appease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | assouvissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | beruhigend (anodyne, becalming, calming, hushing, pacifying, reassuring, reassuringly, salving, sedating, sedative, sedatively, soothing, soothingly, tranquilizing, tranquillizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megbékítés (appeasement, mollification, pacification, propitiation), megbékülés (appeasement), lekenyerezés (appeasement), lecsendesítés (appeasement, pacification, pacifying), kielégítés (appeasement, gratification, restitution, satiation, satisfaction), kielégülés (appeasement, contentment, gratification, satisfaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | calmante (anodyne, calmative, calming, sedative, soothing, tranquilizer, tranquillizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | appeasingay odihnitor (composing, grateful, mild, recreating, relaxing, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, soothing), împãciuitorist. (various references) sedante (calming, reassuring, salving, sedative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | placabile, placabilem, placabili, placabilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Appeasing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Appassany, apprasing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "appeasing" (pronounced upē"zing) |
| 4 | -ē" z i ng | easing, freezing, pleasing, seizing, sneezing, squeezing, teasing, wheezing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, sensationalizing, sizing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-n-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: genipaps, paganise. | |
-2 letters: genipap, nappies, paesani, papains, pigpens, pinesap, pipages, sapping, spaeing, spinage. | |
-3 letters: apneas, easing, genips, nappes, nappie, paeans, paesan, pagans, paisan, pangas, papain, pepsin, pigpen, pipage. | |
-4 letters: aegis, again, agape, angas, anise, ansae, apian, aping, apnea, aspen, gains, gapes, genip, napes, nappe, neaps, nipas, paean, pagan, pages, pains, paisa, paise, panes, panga. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-n-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: lagniappes. | |
+3 letters: disappearing, papermakings, reappraising, sandpapering. | |
+4 letters: glasspapering, paperhangings, planographies, propagandizes. | |
+5 letters: propagandizers, wappenschawing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 70 65 61 73 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. .--. . .- ... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p p e a s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 0070 0065 0061 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358282716785758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, kínai, cinese, 중국, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, chino |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, francia, francese, "랑스, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, német, tedesco, 독일, neamţ, alemán |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, húngaro |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, limba coreeanã, coreean, coreano |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, Roumain, rumäne, román, rumeno, 루마니아, român, rumano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, 영국, englezesc, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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