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Calm down   /kɑm daʊn/   Listen
Calm down

verb
1.
Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation.  Synonyms: calm, chill out, cool it, cool off, settle down, simmer down.  "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
2.
Make calm or still.  Synonyms: calm, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize.
3.
Become quiet or less intensive.  Synonym: lull.






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"Calm down" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite pleased at his own boldness, and for his victory over his wife. He had no idea that she would calm down so soon. Had he made a mistake in always giving in to her? he asked himself. Perhaps if he had been a little more assertive it might have ...
— Jess of the Rebel Trail • H. A. Cody

... to restore unanimity and goodwill to the school. Eric no longer headed the party which made a point of ridiculing and preventing industry; and sharing as he did the sympathy of nearly all the boys, he was able quietly and unobtrusively to calm down the jealousies and allay the heart-burnings which had for so long a time brought discord and disunion into the school society. Cheerfulness and unanimity began to prevail once more at Roslyn, and Eric had the intense happiness of seeing ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar

... editor," said the interrupter of poetic justice good-humoredly. "Appropriately framed and hung upon the wall, fifteen cents apiece. Yah-ah-ah-oo!" he yawned prodigiously. "Calm down," he added. ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... But the increased action of their pulses began to calm down again; for instead of standing up according to his wont and giving a few short, sharp orders, the colonel, after turning towards the orderly and hearing him out, merely raised his eyes ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

... the idea of meeting him again, but my attention was taken up by a low muttering from Mr Gunson, and I went with Mrs Dean to his side, and stood watching her bathe his head till he sighed gently, and seemed to calm down. ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn


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