What does cool off mean?

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cool off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool itverb

    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."

  2. cool, cool off, cool downverb

    lose intensity

    "His enthusiasm cooled considerably"

  3. cool offverb

    feel less enamoured of something or somebody

Wiktionary

  1. cool offverb

    To decrease in temperature, activity, or temper.

  2. cool offverb

    To cause to decrease in temperature, activity or temper.

ChatGPT

  1. cool off

    "Cool off" generally refers to the process of calming down, reducing anger or agitation, or letting strong emotions subside. It can also refer to the physical act of cooling something or someone down from a high temperature.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cool off in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cool off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cool off in a Sentence

  1. Nick Bond:

    In the fall of 2013 and early 2014 we started to notice a big, almost circular mass of water that just didn't cool off as much as it usually did, so by spring of 2014 it was warmer than we had ever seen it for that time of year.

  2. Richard Wenzel:

    A key issue is that when we breathe, we cool off, so wearing a mask that( gets) quickly hot can lead to an elevated temperature in extreme heat, especially if accompanied by humidity.

  3. Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_:

    Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.

  4. Patrick Carney:

    ( The burners) would be radiating so much heat into the cart that it would be impossible to cool off, it's going to just trap all that heat in there, and I'll have a big problem then.

  5. Luana Marques:

    The best response is to cool off your brain before making decisions.


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