cool down

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	cool down - make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" cool, chill alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" quench - cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel" ice - put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs" refrigerate - cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine"
	2.	cool down - lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably" cool off, cool change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
	3.	cool down - loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" cool, chill change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

Translations

? cool down

vi

(lit) → abkühlen; (weather also, person) → sich abkühlen

(feelings etc) → sich abkühlen; (anger also) → verrauchen; (critical situation, person: = calm down) → sich beruhigen; look, just cool down will you! → komm, reg dich (bloß wieder) ab! (inf); to let things cool down → die Sache etwas ruhen lassen

vt sep

food, drink → abkühlen; (= let cool down) → abkühlen lassen; to cool oneself down → sich abkühlen

situation → beruhigen; put him in a cell, that’ll cool him down → steck ihn in eine Zelle, dann wird er sich schon wieder beruhigen