calm down

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calm down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  calm down
      v 1: 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." [syn: calm, calm down, cool off,
           chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it]
      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: become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a
         moment" [syn: lull, calm down]