Pacification
Related Definitions
[n] actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
[n] the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
[n] a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"
Related Terms
abatement, allayment, alleviation, armistice, assuagement, blunting, breathing spell, buffer zone, calming, cease-fire, cooling-off period, damping, deadening, demilitarized zone, demulsion, diminution, dulcification, dulling, easing, falling-off, hollow