QUIETEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quieten mean? 

• QUIETEN (verb)
  The verb QUIETEN has 3 senses:

1. become quiet or quieter

2. make calm or still

3. cause to be quiet or not talk

  Familiarity information: QUIETEN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUIETEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they quieten    ... he / she / it quietens   
Past simple: quietened   
Past participle: quietened   
-ing form: quietening   

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 "quieten" 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

Antonym:

louden (become louder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make calm or still

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize

Context example:

quiet the dragons of worry and fear

Hypernyms (to "quieten" is one way to...):

comfort; console; solace; soothe (give moral or emotional strength to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quieten"):

lull (calm by deception)

compose (calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet)

appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)

assure; reassure (cause to feel sure; give reassurance to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to be quiet or not talk

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hush; hush up; quieten; shut up; silence; still

Context example:

Please silence the children in the church!

Hypernyms (to "quieten" is one way to...):

conquer; stamp down; subdue; suppress (bring under control by force or authority)

Cause:

hush (become quiet or still; fall silent)

Verb group:

hush; pipe down; quiesce; quiet; quiet down; quieten (become quiet or quieter)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quieten"):

shush (silence (someone) by uttering 'shush!')

calm down; lull (become quiet or less intensive)

shout down (silence or overwhelm by shouting)

gag; muzzle (prevent from speaking out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

louden (cause to become loud)