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# pacification

noun (pacification — uncountable; formal)

«pacification» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (formal) Making people calm or stopping them being angry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#m1)
2. (formal, history) Bringing peace to an area by force, often by an army, so that people stop fighting back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history texts: an army's "pacification" of a region often meant violent control, so the word can hide harsh actions (a kind of euphemism). In everyday life the related word is pacify — calming a crying baby. Phrases: pacification of a region.

### Examples

- The army's pacification of the region was cruel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x1)
- Some history books use "pacification" to hide how violent the war was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x2)
- The pacification of the angry crowd took hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x3)
- Pacification means making calm, sometimes by force. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x4)
- The general wrote a report on the pacification campaign. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x5)
- A dummy helps with the pacification of a crying baby (formal, jokey). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable, formal. Verb: pacify (pacified, pacifying); related: pacifier (US: a baby's dummy), pacifist (someone against all war). In history, read "pacification" carefully — it may mean force was used.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pacification» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pacification/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pacification» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pacification.html) on Mova free.