As verbs the difference between placate and plicate
is that placate is to calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate while plicate is to fold or pleat usually used in passive.
As an adjective plicate is
folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.
placate
English
Verb
(placat)
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
Synonyms
* (to calm) appease, mollify, satisfy
Antonyms
* (to calm) enrage
Derived terms
* placater
* placating
* placatingly
* placation
* placative
* placatory
Related terms
* placid
plicate
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.
Synonyms
* (folded) corrugated, folded, plicated
Related terms
* plicately
Verb
(plicat)
To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).
