Calm Down

Definition: Calm Down

Calm Down

Verb

1. Become quiet or calm, esp. 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.".

2. Make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear".

3. Become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Calm Down

Excitability

Calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Crosswords: Calm Down

Please calm down. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Everybody in this family needs to just calm down and eat some fruit or something. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Just calm down, alright? (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.)

All right, everybody, just calm down! (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin)

You've all got to calm down. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

They help me calm down and I can get through it (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)

Now, better wait till they calm down (#1; performing artist: Nelly)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Calm down (reference)

• Calm Down, Look Around (reference)

• How To Calm Down Even If You're Absolutely, Totally Nuts: A Simple Guide To Relaxation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Calm Down [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Afrikaans

bedaar (calm). (various references)

Albanian

zbus (allay, amortise, amortize, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, domesticate, ease, macerate, propitiate, relax, soften), qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), qetësohem (abate, blow out, cool down, cool off, die down, grow quiet, heal, rage, settle down, simmer down, subside). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏أهدأ (calm, cool down, moderate, quiet, settle down, stay). (various references)

Bulgarian 

успокоявам се (quiet down, regain one's composure, settle down, smooth down, steady), успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), утихвам (fall, quiet, spend, subside, tranquilize), укротявам (break in, cow, manage, master, mollify, pacify, settle, subdue, tame, twit), позатихвам (die down). (various references)

Czech

utišit se (calm, drop, go away, pipe down, quieten, still), uklidnit se (calm, compose oneself, cool down, quieten, simmer down, steady, still, subside), uklidníte se, jen klid (take it easy). (various references)

Dutch

kalmeren (appease, calm, quiet, soothe, still), bedaren (abate, appease, calm, quiet, soothe, still, subside). (various references)

Esperanto

trankviliĝi. (various references)

Finnish

tyyntyä (abate, become calm, calm oneself, subside), rauhoittua (calm oneself, compose oneself). (various references)

French

calmer (calm), se calmer. (various references)

German

besänftige, beruhigen (allay, appease, becalm, calm, comfort, ease, lull, pacify, quiet, quieten, quieten down, reassure, relieve, salve, sedate, settle, settle down, smooth, soothe, still, to allay, to appease, to calm, to compose, to pacify, to reassure, to sedate, to tranquilize, to tranquillize). (various references)

Greek 

ηρεμώ (calm, compose, cool off, quiet, quieten, relax). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ר�'ע (hush, relax, settle down). (various references)

Hungarian

megnyugtat (assuage, becalm, disembarrass, gentle, quell, quiet, quiet down, reassure, still, to appease, to assuage, to calm sy down, to gentle, to hush, to lull, to quell, to quiet down, to reassure, to salve, to sedate, to sleek, to solace, to soothe, to still, to stroke down, to stroke sy down, to tranquillize, tranquilize, tranquillize), megnyugszik (cool down, to assuage, to grow quiet, to quiet down, to quieten down, to set one's heart at rest, to steady, to still, to whist), lecsillapít (appease, hush, quell, quiet down, reconcile, to appease, to assuage, to calm, to mollify, to quell, to reconcile, to salve, to smooth, to stroke down, to tranquillize, tranquillize, wet blanket). (various references)

Italian

calmare (abate, allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, compose, cool, ease, hush, lull, pacify, quell, quiet, quieten, reassure, sober, soothe, still, to appease). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'�らぐ (to be mitigated, to calm down, to soften). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おちつける (to calm down, to compose oneself, to quiet), おちつく (to be steady, to calm down, to harmonize with, to match, to restore presence of mind, to settle down, to settle in, to take up one's residence), しずまる (to abate, to be suppressed, to calm down, to die down, to quieten down, to subside), な�"む (to be softened, to calm down), やわらぐ (to be mitigated, to calm down, to soften). (various references)

Pig Latin

almcay ownday

Polish

uspokoić się. (various references)

Portuguese

sossegar (lull, repose, settle, still), serenar (bridle, pacify, quiet down, restrain, tranquilize, tranquillize), amainar, acalmar-se (chill out, quiet down, simmer down), acalmar (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, cool, ease, hush, lay, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, relieve, resettle, salve, settle, simmer down, slow down, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), abrandar (appease, attemper, deaden, decelerate, dilute, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall, flatten, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, mutate, pass off, quiet, reduce, relax, relent, relieve, season, slacken, slake, soothe, unbend, unbrace, voice). (various references)

Romanian

astâmpãra (appease, quiet, satisfy). (various references)

Russian 

стихнуть (fall, subside), успокаиваться (compose oneself, ease off, ease up, quiet, quiet down, quieten, simmer down, subside, tranquilize), утихнуть (abate, cease, die away, fall), угомониться, уняться (quiet down, stop flowing), затихать (die down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smiriti se (cool down, quiet down, simmer down), odljutiti. (various references)

Spanish

calmarse (abate, blow over, cool down, die down, drop, ease, quieten, settle down, simmer down, sober down, subside), sosegarse (abate, die down, quiet, subside). (various references)

Swedish

lugna sig (lull, quiet down). (various references)

Turkish

yatışmak (come off the boil, cool, cool down, quiet, quiet down, resettle, settle, simmer down, still, subside), sakinleşmek (become tranquilized, compose oneself, cool down, hush, let one's hair down, let up, quiet, quiet down, quieten, resettle, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, still, subside), sakin olmak (keep cool, keep one's temper, keep still), sakin ol (cool it, keep cool, keep still, keep your hair on, steady on). (various references)

Turkmen 

rahatlanmak (become quiet, subside), ьnjalmak (become quiet, subside), kцюeюnek (become silent, grow still). (various references)

Ukrainian

заспокоюватися (abate, hush, pacify, settle down, simmer down, soften, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

sedare, sedasset, sedaverunt, sedavit, sedem, sedemus, sedent, sedere, sederis, sedes, sedet, sedetis, sedetur. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: almond, cowman, dolman, wadmol.

-3 letters: acold, adown, clown, comal, dolma, domal, macon, modal, monad, nodal, nomad, waldo, woald, woman.

-4 letters: alow, awol, calm, calo, clad, clam, clan, claw, clod, clon, coal, coda, cola, cold, coma, cowl, damn, dawn, dona, down, land, lawn, load, loam, loan, loca, lown, mano, mawn, moan, mola, mold, mown.

+1 letter: clampdown.

+2 letters: clampdowns.