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QUIESCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quiesce mean?
• QUIESCE (verb)
The verb QUIESCE has 1 sense:
1. become quiet or quieter
Familiarity information: QUIESCE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they quiesce ... he / she / it quiesces
Past simple: quiesced
Past participle: quiesced
-ing form: quiescing
... he / she / it quiesces Past simple: quiesced
Past participle: quiesced
-ing form: quiescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become quiet or quieter
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
hush; pipe down; quiesce; quiet; quiet down; quieten
Context example:
The audience fell silent when the speaker entered
Hypernyms (to "quiesce" is one way to...):
change intensity (increase or decrease in intensity)
Verb group:
hush; hush up; quieten; shut up; silence; still (cause to be quiet or not talk)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
quiescent (being quiet or still or inactive)
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