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calm down
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Princeton's WordNet
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."
calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, stillverb
make calm or still
"quiet the dragons of worry and fear"
lull, calm downverb
become quiet or less intensive
"the fighting lulled for a moment"
Wiktionary
calm downverb
To become less excited, intense, or angry.
calm downverb
To cause to become less excited, intense, or angry.
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calm down
To calm down generally refers to the process of becoming or making someone become quiet, relaxed, less excited or less agitated after being upset, angry or bothered. It involves reducing intense emotional or physical agitation.
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Calm Down
"Calm Down" is Killing Heidi's eighth single released and the second single from their third self-titled album Killing Heidi. The song was the #1 most added song to Australian radio during the week of its release. Lead singer Ella Hooper said of the song, "it's about [having] a big crush [on someone]". The video was shot in the grand open spaces of Broken Hill, New South Wales.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of calm down in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of calm down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of calm down in a Sentence
German Chancellor Angela Merkel:
We have to do everything to calm down the situation and in this spirit I think all sides need to make a contribution.
The norm would usually see an aircraft suffering from depressurization landing at the nearest suitable airport – not least to calm down the passengers, who would be severely frightened, however, if there were nothing structurally wrong with the aircraft, the commander could elect to continue to a more distant airport.
Prior to the selloff the Chinese market looked bubbly, kept rising even as the economy is slowing. It will take some time for the market to calm down, judging from Japanese experience it is not easy to support share prices just by price keeping operation.
CIT-trained officers seem to have an idea of wanting to take time and wait it out to see if they can get the person to calm down, non-CIT-trained officers seem to have that point where 'It's on.'.
When we think about families with children with autism coming to a game, theres barriers to re-entry, theres sensory overload when we score a touchdown and theres pyrotechnics, we felt the sensory room was what we needed to be fully accessible and the idea behind it was not to change the experience but deliver a solution if they needed to take a break. If the sensory bag wasnt enough, you dont have to leave the stadium. You can take a break, de-escalate, calm down and rejoin the experience when you felt ready.
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- أهدأ, هدأArabic
- beroligeDanish
- beruhigenGerman
- tranquilizar, calmarse, calmarSpanish
- tyyntyä, rauhoittua, rauhoittaa, tyynnytelläFinnish
- apaiser, calmer, tranquilliserFrench
- calmar, calmarseGalician
- הִרְגִּיעַ, נרגעHebrew
- 落ち着くJapanese
- astâmpăraRomanian
- уняться, умиротворять, униматься, успокаиваться, успокоить, успокаивать, успокоиться, умиротворитьRussian
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