phrasal verb

• 1North American Assume the attitude of a person about to fight.

  ‘the two men squared off’

  More example sentences

  • ‘there was some awesome karate action as Jason squared off against a former fellow agent’

• 2square someone off, square off someoneAustralian Placate someone.

  More example sentences

  • ‘he was not very amused but we squared him off with a few free beers’

  Synonyms

  pacify, calm, calm down, appease, mollify, soothe, win over, quiet, conciliate, propitiate, make peace with, humour