(v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(2) The present study investigated the way that sucking of a pacifier influences gastric secretory and motor functions in connection with tube feeding.
(3) While it’s too early to suppose that President Trump’s attitude won’t change, given his unpredictability, the more emollient tone does appear to be pacifying markets for now.” Analysts also pointed to another reason for the strength in US markets.
(4) To this, add any exposure resulting from pacifier use or from in vivo nitrosation of precursors.
(5) Calves with access to pacifiers sucked other objects more than calves without pacifiers.
(6) The prime minister is hoping that negotiations with Brussels will deliver substantial concessions he hopes will pacify Eurosceptics but the former chancellor dismissed the idea of securing any significant reforms from Brussels.
(7) Users of orthodontic pacifiers had statistically significantly greater overjets, and there was a significantly higher proportion of subjects with open bite in the conventional pacifier group.
(8) Previous austerity measures announced during the socialists' short term in office had failed to pacify markets.
(9) When 16 types of baby-bottle nipples and children's pacifiers were tested recently, relatively high levels of nitramines, nitrosamines, and nitrosatable precursors were found.
(10) Duncan Smith claims: "Too often for those locked in the benefits system, that process of making responsible and positive choices has been skewed – money paid out to pacify them regardless, with no incentive to aspire for a better life.
(11) Memorable examples include his drinking bout with Professor Henry Louis Gates' arresting officer, Sgt Crowley, or his chugging a few bottles while awkwardly bowling to pacify nervous, middle-class white voters in Pennsylvania during the primaries.
(12) In the field Experiment B, nursing staff provided infants with a standard pacifier during alternate intervals in a sequence of four interfeed intervals spanning 12 hr.
(13) Treatment infants were offered a pacifier during and following every tube feeding; control infants received routine care.
(14) Pacifiers or rest were given for 5 minutes following routine caregiving and before each of the first 16 bottle feedings.
(15) But, with some diplomatic cover from China, the Sri Lankan regime emerged to claim to have pacified its island.
(16) But the pacified favelas have had slow progress in health, housing, education and business development — all of which were supposed to follow rapidly after the return of the authorities.
(17) The US fought two fierce and costly battles in Falluja in 2004 and lost almost 200 soldiers without pacifying the rebellious city.
(18) Children with pacifier attachments, on the other hand, were less often rated as securely attached and were more likely to show changes in security classification between 12 and 30 months.
(19) Two typical cases are presented in which the prolonged use of nursing bottle at bedtime and the use of pacifiers dipped into honey are responsible for the development of multi-caries.
(20) Effective strategies to care for these infants included recognizing states and cues, swaddling, use of pacifier, waking to eat, and smaller feedings.
Squelch
Definition:
(v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
(n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) What was shaping a week ago to be the second successive, evenly balanced and see-saw NBA finals between these teams instead proved shockingly one-sided, as Miami were squelched for the third time in six days and lost the best-of-seven series by four games to one.
(2) The effects of the amplitude of the squelch signal and of the degree of smoothing were systematically investigated for experimental and simulated 1-D and 2-D rf echograms.
(3) In Beijing I witnessed recently how the only Chinese demonstration against the war was squelched by police, while a march by foreign residents was tolerated for just 20 minutes.
(4) The ability of the c-Jun protein, the main component of the transcription factor AP1, to interact directly or indirectly with the RNA polymerase II-initiation complex to activate transcription was investigated by in vivo transcription interference ("squelching") experiments.
(5) The GAL-TAF-1 activator was found to self-squelch without affecting basal transcription.
(6) The emerging popularity of the procedure was squelched by the frequent complication of gastrojejunal stomal ulceration.
(7) Zhou established Fengrui in 2007 and the next year took on one of the country’s biggest dairies in a scandal over tainted baby formula that the government had tried to squelch.
(8) Here, we provide evidence that EB1 and R can synergistically activate specific transcription, and that overexpressed, unbound EB1, represses the R-induced transcription ('squelching').
(9) We have to watch for and cultivate and encourage those glimmers of curiosity and possibility, not suppress them, not squelch them,” Obama told the audience on the South Lawn, which included astronauts, scientists and students.
(10) Interestingly, at high concentrations human jun-D displays decreased activity which cannot be explained by a simple self squelching model.
(11) These purified cofactors were found to be required for CTF-1-regulated transcription, and they counteracted squelching by an excess of activator in in vitro reconstitution experiments.
(12) We don’t go around that way when there are big tides,” I was told with unblinking frankness as I squelched up to my hotel reception desk.
(13) When excess v-jun is expressed in the cell, replication is inhibited or 'squelched'.
(14) We suggest that this inhibition, which we call squelching, reflects titration of a transcription factor by the activating region of GAL4.
(15) A similar level of squelching was seen after removal of the up-stream activation sequences from the yeast reporter gene, suggesting that the squelching interactions were with transcription factors needed for the activity of a basal promoter.
(16) Worse yet, some will demand they be violently squelched, as Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo did when he suggested that police crack down on masked vandals: "I think they have to bring down the clubs, get them off the street."
(17) These images are termed according to their algorithms: ZCS, zero crossing counter with squelch; ASS, analytic signal with squelch; ASW, analytic signal with Wiener kernel; UNP, unwrapped phase; and SAS, smoothed analytic signal.
(18) Once, this place may have been a shit-hole, but it was teeming, hopping, crowded" – and we squelch our way past Desolation Row to a little corner of Cairns Street where the resolute people remain.
(19) These findings suggest that saturation of the cellular capacity to mediate an estrogen response and ER-dependent squelching occur at receptor titers well above those encountered in nature.
(20) An incision was made to remove the abscess, but instead of finding pus, massive bleeding ensued whose source could not be located; it was squelched by tampons.