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quiet down |
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quiet (someone or an animal) down to make someone or an animal more quiet. Please go and quiet the children down. Try to quiet down the children. Please quiet that dog down. See also: quiet quiet down to become quiet; to become less noisy. Please quiet down. Ask them to quiet down. See also: quiet How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the wind, as if satisfied at last with its mischievous pranks, stopped blowing this ocean and hurried away to another part of the world to blow something else; so that the waves, not being joggled any more, began to quiet down and behave themselves. They are two hotheads -- the one a Gascon, the other from Picardy; both are easily excited, but they quiet down immediately. If you knock on your wall appealingly, they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment--then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, and as vigorously as before. |
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