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mollify 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈmäləˌfī/,
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mollifying, present participle; mollified, past tense; mollified, past participle; mollifies, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone)
    • - nature reserves were set up around the power stations to mollify local conservationists
  2. Reduce the severity of (something); soften

  1. pacify: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
  2. temper: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
  3. make less rigid or softer
  4. (mollification) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
  5. (mollification) pacification: 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"
  6. In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth functions with special properties, used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. ...
  7. To ease a burden; make less painful; to comfort; To appease, pacify, gain the good will of
  8. (mollified) soothed; appeased; assuaged
  9. to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease; to mitigate or reduce; soften: to mollify one's demands.
  10. (v) - to calm, to reduce