<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.</li><li>Synonyms: placate, calm</li><li>Antonyms: enrage</li><li>To satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.</li><li>Antonyms: sharpen, arouse, increase</li><li>To yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.</li><li>Antonyms: defy</li></ul>