'Pacification' definitions:
Definition of 'pacification'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: pacification, mollification]
noun
A treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th" [syn: peace, peace treaty, pacification]
noun
Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn: pacification, counterinsurgency]
Definition of 'Pacification'
From: GCIDE
- Pacification \Pa*cif`i*ca"tion\, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See Pacify.] The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pacification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- armistice,
- assuagement,
- blunting,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- calming,
- cease-fire,
- cooling-off period,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demilitarized zone,
- demulsion,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- falling-off,
- hollow truce,
- hushing,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- modus vivendi,
- mollification,
- neutral territory,
- palliation,
- Pax Dei,
- pax in bello,
- Pax Romana,
- peace,
- Peace of God,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- stand-down,
- subduement,
- suspension of hostilities,
- tempering,
- temporary arrangement,
- tranquilization,
- treaty of peace,
- truce
Words containing 'Pacification'
- Pacific,
- Pacifically,
- Pacificator,
- pacifical,
- pacifism,
- Pacific City,
- Pacific City, OR,
- Pacific County,
- Pacific Grove,
- Pacific Junction,
- Pacific Ocean,
- Pacific yew,
- Pacific, MO,
- Pacific, WA,
- north pacific,
- pacific bonito,
- pacific coast,
- pacific cod,
- pacific halibut,
- pacific hemlock,
- pacific herring,
- pacific newt,
- pacific northwest,
- pacific plum,
- pacific ridley,
- pacific sardine,
- pacific sturgeon,
- pacific time,
- pacific tripletail,
- pacific walrus,
- south pacific,
- Pacific County, WA,
- Pacific Grove, CA,
- Pacific Junction, IA,
- pacific bottlenose dolphin,
- pacific giant salamander,
- pacific silver fir,
- pacific spiny dogfish,
- pacific standard time,
- pacific tree toad,
- native of some of the Pacific islands It is used by the natives as a candle the nut kernels being strung together The oil from the nut