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Quiet Down

Definition: Quiet Down

Quiet Down

Verb

1. Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered".

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


Synonyms: Quiet Down

Synonyms: hush (v), pipe down (v), quiesce (v), quiet (v), quieten (v). (additional references)
Antonym: louden (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Quiet Down

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Screenplays

Ok, quiet down or nobody gets to be the hostage! (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer)

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

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Photo Album: Quiet Down

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Would you quiet down if I ask you in?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Modern Translation: Quiet Down

Language Translations for "quiet down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qetësohet (let up, lull), resht (pacify, quiet, quieten, stop, tail away), pushoj (cease, desist, die, discontinue, dismiss, give over, hush, intermit, pacify, pass, pause, quieten, quit, rest, shut down, Stow). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стихвам (drop, hush, lull, moderate, quiet, quieten, sink, slacken, stand still, still, subside), успокоявам се (calm down, regain one's composure, settle down, smooth down, steady), успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ztišit se, utišit (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, ease, hush, pacify, quieten, relieve, rest, silence, sooth, stay, tranquillize), ukonejšit (hush). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hiljentyä. (various references)

   

German

  

sich beruhigen (abate, be eased, become calm, calm down, die down, ease off, lessen, quieten down, relax, settle down, simmer down, smooth down, sober up, steady, subside, to quiet down). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל" יח את ""עת (calm, please, quieten, satisfy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megnyugtat (assuage, becalm, calm down, disembarrass, gentle, quell, quiet, 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), lecsillapít (appease, calm down, hush, quell, 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

  

quietare (calm, calm down, quiet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ietquay ownday

   

Portuguese

  

serenar (bridle, calm down, pacify, restrain, tranquilize, tranquillize), acalmar-se (calm down, chill out, simmer down). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se domoli (abate, ease, flatten, lull, relent, slacken, soften, swoon). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

успокаивать (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, conciliate, hush, mince, mollify, pacify, quiet, quieted, quieten, quieting, reassure, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), уняться (calm down, stop flowing), притихнуть (grow quiet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stišati se (abate, die down), smiriti se (calm down, cool down, simmer down). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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

   

Turkish

  

yatışmak (calm down, come off the boil, cool, cool down, quiet, resettle, settle, simmer down, still, subside), susmak (be quiet, be tongue-tied, hold one's peace, hush, keep mum, keep quiet, pipe down, quiet, quieten, shush, shut up, stop speaking), sakinleşmek (become tranquilized, calm down, compose oneself, cool down, hush, let one's hair down, let up, quiet, quieten, resettle, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, still, subside), dinmek (blow out, cease, lay, leave off, let up, pass, pass off, quieten). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Quiet Down

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

conquiescam, conquievit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Quiet Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-o-q-t-u-w"

-2 letters: outwind, quoined, quoited, wideout.

-3 letters: dunite, quinte, quoted, townie, twined, united, untied, wonted.

-4 letters: donut, dowie, dwine, endow, equid, indow, indue, noted, nudie, outed, owned, quiet, quint, quite, quoin, quoit, quote, teind, tined, tondi, toned, toque, towed, towie, tuned, twine, unite, untie, unwed, unwit, widen, wined, wited, wound.

-5 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, dint.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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