Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Pacification

Nouns
  • pacification, conciliation
  • reconciliation, reconcilement
  • shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment
  • terms, compromise
  • amnesty, deed of release. peace offering
  • olive branch
  • calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace. truce, armistice
  • suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down
  • breathing time
  • convention
  • flag of truce, white flag, cartel. hollow truce
  • drawn battle.
Verbs
  • pacify, tranquilize, compose
  • allay etc. (moderate) Moderation
  • reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms. settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences
  • set straight
  • make up a quarrel
  • come to an understanding, come to terms
  • bridge over, hush up
  • make it, make matters up
  • shake hands
  • mend one's fences [U.S.]. raise a siege, lift a siege
  • put up the sword, sheathe the sword
  • bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares
  • smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus
  • keep the peace etc. (concord) Concord
  • be pacified etc.
  • come round.
Adjectives
  • conciliatory
  • composing etc. v.
  • pacified etc. v..