Определение placating в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
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"
If you placate someone, you do or say something to make them stop feeling angry. He smiled, trying to placate me `I didn't mean to upset you,' Agnew said in a placating voice. = appease. to make someone stop feeling angry = appease (past participle of placare)