What part of speech is pacifying?

Pacifying can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. pacifying is a verb, gerund of pacify (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does pacifying mean?

Definitions

Verb

pacify - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
pacify - fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"

Examples of pacifying

#   Sentence  
1. verb This left Westmoreland with few options, so he adapted a Search and Destroy strategy instead of a Clear and Defend strategy which is, in the long run, the preferred method of pacifying an insurgency.
2. verb The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia.
3. verb When Johnson deployed troops in 1964 he was advised by the military it would take a half-million troops about ten years to pacify South Vietnam.
4. verb He finds it easier to just pacify her than be straight up with her.
5. verb Was Christianity invented by the Flavian imperial family to pacify Judean rebels?
6. verb He finds it easier to just pacify her than be straight up with her.
7. verb Was Christianity invented by the Flavian imperial family to pacify Judean rebels?
Sentence  
verb
This left Westmoreland with few options, so he adapted a Search and Destroy strategy instead of a Clear and Defend strategy which is, in the long run, the preferred method of pacifying an insurgency.
The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia.
When Johnson deployed troops in 1964 he was advised by the military it would take a half-million troops about ten years to pacify South Vietnam.
He finds it easier to just pacify her than be straight up with her.
Was Christianity invented by the Flavian imperial family to pacify Judean rebels?
He finds it easier to just pacify her than be straight up with her.
Was Christianity invented by the Flavian imperial family to pacify Judean rebels?

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