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Verb: quiet down  kwI-it dawn
  1. Become quiet or quieter
    "The crowd quieted down as the speaker approached the podium";
    - quieten [Brit], hush, quiet, quiesce, pipe down [informal]

Derived forms: quieting down, quiets down, quieted down

Type of: change intensity