endear (to)

verb

Definition of endear (to)next
as in to ingratiate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for endear (to)
  1. ingratiate
  2. placate
  3. content
  4. appease
  5. propitiate
  6. comfort
  7. console
  8. disarm
Verb
  • To ingratiate himself into the community, John Fisher took part in the Nashville Pickers Celebrity Baseball Team, a touring sports outfit that included local record executives and artists like Roy Clark, Tanya Tucker, and Mickey Gilley.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
  • This isn’t Meta’s first time ingratiating itself with Trump.
    BYAndrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of ingratiate
Verb
  • Immediately after, Agatha began killing other witches, presumably as a way to placate Rio by delivering her bodies in order to keep her son alive.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • King’s Running Man, published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of placate
Verb
  • From the new show Carl the Collector, which features an autistic raccoon, to content with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretations, PBS KIDS is spearheading change in the disability community.
    Jaclyn Greenberg, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
  • At a time when most of her pop peers – even the best ones – have either retired from music, faded from the limelight or simply contented themselves with recreating past glories, Beyoncé remains steadfastly committed to pushing forward.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of content
Verb
  • On Wednesday, Albertsons blamed Kroger for not trying harder to appease wary regulators and therefore breaching its merger agreement to act in good faith.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Questions about a plan to sell off some stores The judge separately weighed the plan by Kroger and Albertsons to sell hundreds of their stores to a firm called C&S Wholesale Grocers as a condition of their merger, meant to appease regulators.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of appease
Verb
  • Since 1979, the United States has sought to contain or propitiate the regime in Tehran.
    Danielle Pletka, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Both the sirens and Proteus know much, if not all, that has happened upon the face of the earth, but whereas the sirens sing their song unbidden while taking the hearer’s life in return, Proteus under compulsion tells the hearer the proper animal sacrifice to offer to propitiate the gods.
    Marina Warner, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2021
Definition of propitiate
Verb
  • Those working at The Mayhew rushed to the cat's side, picking him up and comforting him.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Tomato Soup With Grilled Cheese Croutons Warm homemade soup can be comforting.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of comfort
Verb
  • After President-elect Donald Trump won his second trip to the White House, universities from Oregon to Georgetown broke out the milk and cookies to console heartbroken students.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • No one trying to buy a house or a car or groceries is consoled by lagging indicators.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of console
Verb
  • That decision involved whether certain categories of people — namely those found to pose a credible threat to others — can be temporarily disarmed.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Past agreements, such as the 2006 U.N. Resolution 1701, failed to fully disarm Hezbollah, leading to skepticism about the current deal's enforcement.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of disarm
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