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quiet down

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Verb1.quiet down - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"
pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quieten, hush
silence, still, hush, hush up, quieten, shut up - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
change intensity - increase or decrease in intensity
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But the wind, as if satisfied at last with its mischievous pranks, stopped blowing this ocean and hurried away to another part of the world to blow something else; so that the waves, not being joggled any more, began to quiet down and behave themselves.
Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
They are two hotheads -- the one a Gascon, the other from Picardy; both are easily excited, but they quiet down immediately.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
If you knock on your wall appealingly, they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment--then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, and as vigorously as before.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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