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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again." [syn: calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it]
2: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on]
3: become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" [syn: lull, calm down]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited. Calm down for a minute and listen to me... Do not have a drink or take drugs to calm yourself down. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P, also V P n (not pron) 2. If things calm down, or someone or something calms things down, the amount of activity, trouble, or panic is reduced. We will go back to normal when things calm down... Neil Howorth, director of the academy, tried to calm things down. = settle down PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P