quiet down

Verb

Meaning

become quiet or quieter

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

hush hist shush quiet relax mute settle down shut up quiesce pipe down clam up dry up keep quiet cool off be quiet
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Antonyms

clanging louden commove rackety squalling dinning
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Hypernyms

change intensity

Examples

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more. Ellen DeGeneres

The audience fell silent when the speaker entered Source: Internet

According to the criminal complaint, Davis-Miles was riding a Metro Transit bus on Nov. 6, 2019 with his friends, when the man asked the group to quiet down. Source: Internet

According to Barber, the police were called after he asked a flight attendant to tell a white passenger behind him to quiet down. Source: Internet

“I feel everything,” Coco moans as Sam asks her to quiet down before people think they’re scissor sisters. Source: Internet

Things seemed to quiet down for Whittaker for a few years — until his home burned down in 2016. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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