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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden]
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: cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" [syn: hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up] [ant: louden]

Merriam Webster's

verb (quietened; quietening) Date: circa 1828 chiefly British quiet

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. Brit. (often foll. by down) = QUIET v.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(quietens, quietening, quietened) 1. If you quieten someone or something, or if they quieten, you make them become less noisy, less active, or silent. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use quiet) She tried to quieten her breathing... A man shouted and the dogs suddenly quietened. VERB: V n, V 2. To quieten fears or complaints means to persuade people that there is no good reason for them. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use quiet) Russian intelligence will take a long time to quieten the paranoia of the West. VERB: V n