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pacification
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pacification in WordNet English dictionary
noun
actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
pacification
counterinsurgency
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"
pacification
mollification
a treaty to cease hostilities
"peace came on November 11th"
peace
peace treaty
pacification
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