Verb

(appeas)

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

to appease the tumult of the ocean

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

`First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'

To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.

They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

Verb

(en verb)

  To control or keep in check.

  To deprive of liberty.

  To restrict or limit.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17

, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}