appease

Other forms of appease

past tense

appeased·

present participle

appeasing·

third person

appeases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appease

What does appease mean?

appease means "cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appease?

appease has 2 syllables: ap-pease. The stress falls on "pease". In IPA it is /əˈpiz/.

What is another word for appease?

Close synonyms include pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, mollify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appease a common word?

appease is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appease?

1 word rhymes with appease. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.