to quiet down
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2.0
- phrasal verb
- /ˈkwaɪət daʊn/
- Informal
:
callarse
- So if everyone can quiet down, let's get started.
- quiet down, please
- quiet down a bit
- quiet down now
But it allowed them to quiet down a little bit.
- But it allowed them to quiet down a little bit.
- Serotonin tends to make those circuits quiet down.
- If somebody's talking and you feel like it, ask them to quiet down.
- And when my ritual began, this very voluble patient began to quiet down.
- But for a child with ADHD, they need some kind of sensory stimulus to somehow quiet down part of their brain so that they can actually focus.
- Well, then when those circuits can quiet down, it's as if you know that they can finally quiet down and say we have enough.
- This is going to return your insulin level to a low normal level, which is what you need in order to quiet down your HS flare ups and progression.
- But the third night we're in there clowning around and they you hear, all of a sudden you hear and you guys are quiet down.
Examples
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Everybody, please quiet down.
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- Everyone, please, quiet down!
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But it allowed them to quiet down a little bit.
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Just quiet down and notice what happens.
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I kept telling them to quiet down!
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Narrator: The teacher walks in and the students quiet down and make their way to their seats.
Fiction book (1998) -
Gene, quiet down, I can't hear!
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Hey, guys, quiet down.
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Everyone, please quiet down.
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The teacher asked the noisy class to quiet down so she could start the lesson.
Synonyms
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4.1
Tell someone to be quiet in a rude or angry way
962
1.0
Make a person or animal less upset
594
1.4
To become less angry, excited, or upset
231
1.0
To stop making noise or talking
191
2.7
Make the sound or heat from something lower, for example music
169
3.5
To stop someone from speaking or making noise
68
3.2
To make someone or something calm and less noisy
64
5.8
To make a sound or feeling quieter so it is less noticeable
56
2.5
To become quiet and calm after being excited
55
6.2
To calm down and stop being angry or excited
46
2.7
To become less strong or loud over time
44
3.7
To make something less strong, for example a sound, color or feeling
39
3.7
To relax after a busy or stressful time and slowly come to an end
35
7.1
To become quiet or tell someone to stop making noise
33
3.4
Make a person or thing quiet so others stop making noise
21
3.1
To stop a sound or notification from making noise
16
4.4
Make something less strong or noticeable, for example sound and feeling
5
5.7
Reduce the strength of feelings or public anger
4
4.1
To make a feeling, sound, or action less strong
3
4.6
Make someone or something less noisy and calmer
2
5.0
Make someone stop talking and be quiet
To become quiet and less active, like a storm or room
Speak quietly so you do not disturb others
To tell someone to stop talking and be quiet
Antonyms
How Quiet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to become quiet / make someone quiet' is directly compositional from 'quiet' (to reduce noise) plus the particle-like sense of 'down' (indicating a reduction or lowering). This verb + down pattern is a common, cross-linguistically transparent way to signal decreasing intensity, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Quiet down comes from a simple image of lowering sound: quiet means less noise and down means lower, like turning the volume down. So it came to mean 'to become quiet' or 'to make someone or something quiet'.